The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayBell and Daldy, 1800 - 223 pages |
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... pow'r combin'd . 16 In her fair hand a silver harp she bore , Whose magic notes , soft warbling from the string , Give tranquil joys the breast ne'er knew before , Or raise the soul on rapture's airy wing . By grief impell'd I heard her ...
... pow'r combin'd . 16 In her fair hand a silver harp she bore , Whose magic notes , soft warbling from the string , Give tranquil joys the breast ne'er knew before , Or raise the soul on rapture's airy wing . By grief impell'd I heard her ...
Page 48
... pow'r , Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain , And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt ...
... pow'r , Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain , And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt ...
Page 55
... Pow'r And coward Vice that revels in her chains . 70 80 * Progress of poetry from Greece to Italy , and from Italy to England . Chaucer was not unacquainted with the writings of Dante or of Petrarch . The Earl of Surry and Sir Thomas ...
... Pow'r And coward Vice that revels in her chains . 70 80 * Progress of poetry from Greece to Italy , and from Italy to England . Chaucer was not unacquainted with the writings of Dante or of Petrarch . The Earl of Surry and Sir Thomas ...
Page 86
... pow'r of Fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height , Each pannel in atchievements clothing , Rich windows that exclude the light , And passages that lead to nothing . : & * The mansion - house at Stoke - Pogeis , then in the ...
... pow'r of Fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height , Each pannel in atchievements clothing , Rich windows that exclude the light , And passages that lead to nothing . : & * The mansion - house at Stoke - Pogeis , then in the ...
Page 89
... distant din of war . ২ Short was his joy : he little knew The pow'r of magic was no fable ; Out of the window wisk they flew , But left a spell upon the table . 80 The words too eager to unriddle , The Poet felt MISCELLANIES . 89.
... distant din of war . ২ Short was his joy : he little knew The pow'r of magic was no fable ; Out of the window wisk they flew , But left a spell upon the table . 80 The words too eager to unriddle , The Poet felt MISCELLANIES . 89.
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