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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... for a History of the Revival of Learning ; and I have heard him speak with great kindness of Leo the Tenth , and with keen resentment of his tasteless successor . But probably not a page of the History was ever written .
... for a History of the Revival of Learning ; and I have heard him speak with great kindness of Leo the Tenth , and with keen resentment of his tasteless successor . But probably not a page of the History was ever written .
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... heard her song , And sought , the vales and echoing groves among : At length he found , and woo'd the rural maid ; She knew the monarch , and with fear obey'd . ' Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra ...
... heard her song , And sought , the vales and echoing groves among : At length he found , and woo'd the rural maid ; She knew the monarch , and with fear obey'd . ' Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra ...
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... heard A shriller shriek , and nearer fires appear'd . Th ' affrighted shepherds through the dews of night , Wide o'er the moonlight hills renew'd their flight . ODES , DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL . TO PITY . O THE FUGITIVES . 17.
... heard A shriller shriek , and nearer fires appear'd . Th ' affrighted shepherds through the dews of night , Wide o'er the moonlight hills renew'd their flight . ODES , DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL . TO PITY . O THE FUGITIVES . 17.
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... heard thy strains , And Echo , midst my native plains , Been soothed by Pity's lute . There first the wren thy myrtles shed On gentlest Otway's infant head , To him thy cell was shewn ; And while he sung the female heart , With youth's ...
... heard thy strains , And Echo , midst my native plains , Been soothed by Pity's lute . There first the wren thy myrtles shed On gentlest Otway's infant head , To him thy cell was shewn ; And while he sung the female heart , With youth's ...
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... heard , When once alone it broke the silent scene , And he the wretch of Thebes no more appear'd . O Fear ! I know thee by my throbbing heart , Thy withering power inspired each mournful line , Though gentle Pity claim her mingled part ...
... heard , When once alone it broke the silent scene , And he the wretch of Thebes no more appear'd . O Fear ! I know thee by my throbbing heart , Thy withering power inspired each mournful line , Though gentle Pity claim her mingled part ...
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