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" Bacchus' fruit is friend to Phoebus wise. And when with wine the brain begins to sweat, The numbers flow as fast as spring doth rise. Thou kenst not, Percy, how the rhyme should rage. O, if my temples were distained with wine, And girt in garlands of... "
Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A.: With Selections from His ... - Page 152
by Wilkie Collins - 1848 - 354 pages
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The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English essays - 1917 - 528 pages
...rhyme should rage, And girt in garlands of wild ivy twine; O ! if my temples were bedewed with wine, How I could rear the muse on stately stage, And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine With queint Bellona in her equipage. Read what follows as you would a note at the bottom of a page. But...
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The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English essays - 1917 - 528 pages
...rhyme should rage, O ! if my temples were bedewed with wine, And girt in garlands of wild ivy twine ; How I could rear the muse on stately stage, And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine With queint Bellona in her equipage. Read what follows as you would a note at the bottom of a page. But...
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A Subject-index to the Poems of Edmund Spenser

Charles Huntington Whitman - Authors, American - 1919 - 296 pages
...Muscaroll, father of Clarion: Mui. 23, 238. Muse: her fluttering wing, displays, SCO 43; heavenly, 5.10.3.3; I could rear the muse on stately stage and teach her tread aloft in buskin fine (an allusion to tragedy), SCO 112; man whose muse whilom did mask in lowly shepherd's weeds (an allusion...
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Shakespeare : A Life: A Life

Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...Shepheardes Calendar of 1579, which a generation of new writers accepted as a landmark: How I could reare the Muse on stately stage, And teach her tread aloft in bus-kin fine, With queint Bellona in her equipage. But ah my corage cooles ere it be warme, For thy, content vs in thys...
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The Living Age, Volume 10

1846 - 652 pages
...if my temples were dietain'd with wine, And girt in girlonds of wilde yvie twine, How could I reare the muse on stately stage, And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine, With queint Bellona in her equipage." SPENSER. When poetry was all but extinct among us, Cowper and Burns...
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