Selections from English literature, by E. Lee, Book 3Elizabeth Lee 1913 |
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... bright To hit the sense of human sight , And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black , staid Wisdom's hue ; Black , but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem , Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her ...
... bright To hit the sense of human sight , And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black , staid Wisdom's hue ; Black , but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem , Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her ...
Page 113
... bright face ; When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour , And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound , Or had the black ...
... bright face ; When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour , And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound , Or had the black ...
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... bright With something of an angel light . SONNETS . I. ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND , 1802 . Two Voices are there , one is of the Sea , One of the Mountains , each a mighty voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice , They were thy ...
... bright With something of an angel light . SONNETS . I. ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND , 1802 . Two Voices are there , one is of the Sea , One of the Mountains , each a mighty voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice , They were thy ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13401400 | 1 |
OF SCOTLAND 13941437 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS MALORY fl 1470 | 15 |
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