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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... rolls , to find its place ; Whether the fiery - tressed Dane , Or Roman's self , o'erturned the fame : Or in what heaven - left age it fell ; " Twere hard for modern song to tell . Yet still , if Truth those beams infuse , Which guide ...
... rolls , to find its place ; Whether the fiery - tressed Dane , Or Roman's self , o'erturned the fame : Or in what heaven - left age it fell ; " Twere hard for modern song to tell . Yet still , if Truth those beams infuse , Which guide ...
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... roll : If e'er I round such fairy field , Some power impart the spear and shield , At which the wizard Passions fly , By which the giant Follies die ! Farewell the porch , whose roof is seen , Arch'd with th ' enlivening olive's green ...
... roll : If e'er I round such fairy field , Some power impart the spear and shield , At which the wizard Passions fly , By which the giant Follies die ! Farewell the porch , whose roof is seen , Arch'd with th ' enlivening olive's green ...
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... rolls his sullen eyes , [ prise . If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surIX . Ah , luckless swain ! o'er all unblest , indeed ! Whom late bewilder'd in the dank , dark fen , Far from his flocks , and smoking hamlet , then ...
... rolls his sullen eyes , [ prise . If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surIX . Ah , luckless swain ! o'er all unblest , indeed ! Whom late bewilder'd in the dank , dark fen , Far from his flocks , and smoking hamlet , then ...
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... roll down the steep amain , ' so as that rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar ? If this be said of music , it is nonsense ; if it be said of water , it is nothing to the purpose . The second stanza , exhibiting Mar's car and ...
... roll down the steep amain , ' so as that rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar ? If this be said of music , it is nonsense ; if it be said of water , it is nothing to the purpose . The second stanza , exhibiting Mar's car and ...
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... rolling circle's speed , Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply ' Gainst graver hours , that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their ...
... rolling circle's speed , Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply ' Gainst graver hours , that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their ...
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