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" Majestic forms ; impatient to be free, Spurning the gross control of wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring? "
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer

Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 pages
...wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils : Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that, from Alpine2 heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critcal Notices and An ...

Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...wilful might , Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame 1 Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...a waxen flame ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or •Ganges rolling his bright wave Through...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...Brutus. (2) His arm aloft, ttc. — This fact is related by Cicero himself in his second Philippic. Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that from Alpine heights l his labouring eye Shoots round the vide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges, rolling his bright wave...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils j Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame 1 Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside - Physicians as authors - 1857 - 544 pages
...wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen name ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey The...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...a waxen flame ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his 'bright wave Through...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...-wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils; Proud to be daring 1 who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame 1 Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside - 1863 - 336 pages
...toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, 175 Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame? Who that,...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, iso And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view, Than...a waxen flame? Who that, from Alpine heights, his laboring eye Shoots round the wild horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through...
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