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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The ... - Page 90
by Alexander Chalmers - 1810
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An Essay on Elocution: with Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...thought, and laid me clown On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky As I bent down to look, just opposite...look on me : I started back, It started back: but pleased I soon retnrn'd, Pleased it retura'd as soon with answering look* Of sympathy and love : there...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite,...Bending to look on me: I started back, It started backj but pleased, 1 soon return'd, Pleased it return'd as soon, with answering looks Of sympathy and...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...bank, to look into the elear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, jnst opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me : I started baek, It started baek ; bnt pleas'd I soon retnrn'd, Pleas'd it retnrn'd as soon with answering looks...
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Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...falls into an important chiasm as she describes her Narcissus-like encounter with her image in a pool: As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me ... [PL 4.460-62] [/ bend-down-look : ben A- down -look me] is dispersed...
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Omissions are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore

Jeanne Heuving - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 204 pages
...thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth Lake, that to me seem'd another Sky As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear'd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon return'd,...
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Fifteen Years in Exile, Volume 2

Barry Callaghan - Literary Collections - 1992 - 532 pages
...unexperienc't thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the dear Smooth Lake, that to me seem'd another Sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear' 'd Bending to look on me. I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon...
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared, Bending to look on me. I started back; It started back; but pleased I soon returned, Pleased...
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Reading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity

Arthur F. Marotti - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 404 pages
...thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth Lake, that to me seem'd another Sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear'd Bending to look at me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon return'd,...
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The Reinvention of Love: Poetry, Politics and Culture from Sidney to Milton

Anthony Low - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 286 pages
...when she is momentarily, but still innocently, held enthralled by her reflection in the smooth lake : As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the watry gleam appeerd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon returnd,...
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Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages

Bonnie Wheeler - Art - 1993 - 372 pages
...questions about her self and place and then is drawn to a mirror-like lake and a responsive shape within. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the watry gleam appeerd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleasd I soon returnd,...
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