The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature , and to which the mind is re- conciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular tra- ditions . He loved fairies , genii , giants , and monsters ; he delighted ...
... delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature , and to which the mind is re- conciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular tra- ditions . He loved fairies , genii , giants , and monsters ; he delighted ...
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... delighted to converse , and whom I yet remember with tenderness . ' He was visited at Chichester , in his last illness , by his learned friends Dr. Warton and his brother ; to whom he spoke with disapprobation of his Oriental Eclogues ...
... delighted to converse , and whom I yet remember with tenderness . ' He was visited at Chichester , in his last illness , by his learned friends Dr. Warton and his brother ; to whom he spoke with disapprobation of his Oriental Eclogues ...
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... delight to know . Yet think not these , all beauteous as they are , The best kind blessings Heaven can grant the ... delights to find , The loved perfections of a female mind ! ' Blest were the days when Wisdom held her reign , And ...
... delight to know . Yet think not these , all beauteous as they are , The best kind blessings Heaven can grant the ... delights to find , The loved perfections of a female mind ! ' Blest were the days when Wisdom held her reign , And ...
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... delights to know , Which plains more blest , or verdaut vales bestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from ...
... delights to know , Which plains more blest , or verdaut vales bestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from ...
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... delight thee , and with Abbas reign . Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! ' Yet , midst the blaze of courts she fix'd her love On the cool fountain , or the shady grove ; Still with the ...
... delight thee , and with Abbas reign . Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! ' Yet , midst the blaze of courts she fix'd her love On the cool fountain , or the shady grove ; Still with the ...
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Amyntas arms bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe brow charms cliffs clouds Corydon Daphnis dark death deep divine dread drest ECLOGUE Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flowers gale gentle glittering glory glow grace Gray grove hail hand heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty lonely Lycidas lyre maid Margaret of Anjou melting Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymph o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride rage rapture reign rills roll round sacred scene shade shepherd sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime swain sweet tear thee thine Thormodus Torfæus thou thought throne toil trembling truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild wind wing yonder youth