The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Hours of IdlenessBaynes and Son, 1824 - 446 pages |
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... nature , and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions . He loved fairies , genii , giants , and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment , to gaze on the ...
... nature , and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions . He loved fairies , genii , giants , and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment , to gaze on the ...
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... Nature gave him , and though Science taught The fire of Fancy , and the reach of thought , Severely doom'd to Penury's extreme , He pass'd in madd'ning pain life's fev'rish dream , While rays of genius only served to shew The thick'ning ...
... Nature gave him , and though Science taught The fire of Fancy , and the reach of thought , Severely doom'd to Penury's extreme , He pass'd in madd'ning pain life's fev'rish dream , While rays of genius only served to shew The thick'ning ...
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... Nature's wounds , and wrecks preside ; While Vengeance ; in the lurid air , Lifts her red arm , exposed and bare : On whom that ravening brood of Fate , Who lap the blood of Sorrow , wait ; Sophocles ' Electra . Who , Fear , this ...
... Nature's wounds , and wrecks preside ; While Vengeance ; in the lurid air , Lifts her red arm , exposed and bare : On whom that ravening brood of Fate , Who lap the blood of Sorrow , wait ; Sophocles ' Electra . Who , Fear , this ...
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... Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought , In numbers warmly pure , and sweetly strong : Who first on mountains wild , In Fancy , loveliest child , Thy babe , and Pleasure's , nursed the powers of song ! Thou , who with hermit heart ...
... Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought , In numbers warmly pure , and sweetly strong : Who first on mountains wild , In Fancy , loveliest child , Thy babe , and Pleasure's , nursed the powers of song ! Thou , who with hermit heart ...
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... mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale : Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not 22 TO SIMPLICITY .
... mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale : Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not 22 TO SIMPLICITY .
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