Selections from English literature, by E. Lee, Book 4Elizabeth Lee 1913 |
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... lyre , awake , And give to rapture all thy trembling strings . From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take . The laughing flow'rs , that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as they flow . Now the ...
... lyre , awake , And give to rapture all thy trembling strings . From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take . The laughing flow'rs , that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as they flow . Now the ...
Page 170
... lyre explore ! Bright - eyed Fancy , hovering o'er , Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn . But ah ! ' tis heard no more- O lyre divine , what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? Though he inherit Nor the ...
... lyre explore ! Bright - eyed Fancy , hovering o'er , Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn . But ah ! ' tis heard no more- O lyre divine , what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? Though he inherit Nor the ...
Page 188
... lyre with other strings , Such aid from heaven as some have feign'd they drew , An eloquence scarce given to mortals , new And undebased by praise of meaner things , That ere through age or woe I shed my wings I may record thy worth ...
... lyre with other strings , Such aid from heaven as some have feign'd they drew , An eloquence scarce given to mortals , new And undebased by praise of meaner things , That ere through age or woe I shed my wings I may record thy worth ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13401400 | 1 |
WILLIAM CAXTON 1422 ?1491 | 10 |
STEPHEN HAWES d 1523 | 17 |
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