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" Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to... "
A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies ... - Page 393
by Collection - 1765
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...flood; of darkness; and of eternity; all of which are crowded into the two last lines: " He spoke — and headlong from the mountain's height " Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night." Among the Grecian sages, Plato has been always more peculiarly characterized by the...
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The Bees: A Poem, in Four Books; with Notes, Moral, Political ..., Volumes 1-3

John Evans (M. D.) - Bees - 1806 - 332 pages
...lay, 878. List ye] " Be thine despair and scepter'd care, " To triumph and to tiic be mine, " He said, and headlong from the mountain's height " Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night." GRAY'* Sard. . - . stft soothing air] The celebrated plaintive Welsh air called alorfu...
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The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...ereptaquefata Insequor, et comites feror expectatus ad umbras ; Te superis, fratrique. VOL. I. K He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.* NOTES. Compare also the conclusion of the first Olymp. of Pindar, ver. 184,...
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Select Pieces in Verse and Prose, Volume 1

John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...flood; of darkness, and of eternity ; all of which are crowded into the two last lines. * He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.' In the following well-known illustration of the superiority of the moral...
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Readings on Poetry

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...our fate assign ; Be thine despair and scept'red care, To triumph and to die, be mine. He spoke — and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged in endless night." Fond impious man. — Fond in old language means to express thinking or...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...fates assign. ' Be thine despair, and scepter'd care ; ' To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. ON EDUCATION. As sickly plants betray a niggard earth, Whose barren bosom starves her...
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Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...our Fates assign. Be thine Despair, and sceptred Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. m Speed, relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialiruki, ambassador...
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Select pieces in prose and verse [ed. by J. Bowdler the elder]. 2 vols [in 1].

John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...flood; of darkness, and of eternity ; all of which are crowded into the two last lines : ' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night' In the following well-known illustration of the superiority of the moral above the physical...
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The Poems of Thomas Gray: Embellished with Engravings from the Designs of ...

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...our fates assign. Be thine despair, and sceptred care, To trinmph, and to die, arc mine." He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. Ver. 128. In buskin' dmeasttres move.] SFIAKSPEARF. Ver. 1S1. A voice, as of the cherub-choir.']...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 8

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...our Fates assign. Be thine Despair, and scepter'd Care : To triumph, and to die, are mine." He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. THE FATAL SISTERS. • AN ODE. [ From the Norse- Tongue. ~\ • H THE ORCADES OF THORMODUS...
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