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" That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his... "
Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in progress to which ... - Page 151
by Robert Deverell - 1813
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds. And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and henU, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; salmon. Through the green-wood glade Some love to stray ; there lodg'd, amus'd and fed, In th gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books,...tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon-watch, with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit, Rom the rash hand...
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Paradise Regained: Samson Agonistes, Comus and Arcades

John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books,...tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon-watch, with uninchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree 385 390 38 1 . He that has light...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herd*, And sits as safe as in the senate house ; 3'JO who would rob a hermit of his weeds. His few books or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs an v violence f But beaut v, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had...
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Works, Volume 1

Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 452 pages
...Victoire. — Who was ever in love with you, or your virtues? — Stay till you are tried." CHAPTER XV. " But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree, Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch, with unencha.ited eve, To save her blossoms, or defend her fruit." — MILTOJT. THE...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...let slip time, like a neglected rose, It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Milton's Comut. Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold had need the guard Of dragon-watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand...
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