The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... soul with thought of future fame can bless . While Folly frequent boasts th ' insculptured tomb , By flattery's pen inscribed with purchased praise ; While rustic Labour's undistinguish'd doom Fond Friendship's hand records in humble ...
... soul with thought of future fame can bless . While Folly frequent boasts th ' insculptured tomb , By flattery's pen inscribed with purchased praise ; While rustic Labour's undistinguish'd doom Fond Friendship's hand records in humble ...
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... soul ! Of these let others ask , To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale : Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER ...
... soul ! Of these let others ask , To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale : Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER ...
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... soul can now Its high presuming hopes avow ? Where he who thinks , with rapture blind , This hallow'd work for him design'd ? High on some cliff , to heaven up - piled , Of rude access , of prospect wild , Where , tangled round the ...
... soul can now Its high presuming hopes avow ? Where he who thinks , with rapture blind , This hallow'd work for him design'd ? High on some cliff , to heaven up - piled , Of rude access , of prospect wild , Where , tangled round the ...
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... soul ! For sunny Florence , seat of art , Beneath her vines preserved a part , Till they , whom Science loved to name , ( Oh ! who could fear it ? ) quench'd her flame . And lo , an humbler relic laid In jealous Pisa's olive shade ! See ...
... soul ! For sunny Florence , seat of art , Beneath her vines preserved a part , Till they , whom Science loved to name , ( Oh ! who could fear it ? ) quench'd her flame . And lo , an humbler relic laid In jealous Pisa's olive shade ! See ...
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... soul enforcing Goddess ! stood ; There oft the painted native's fect Were wont thy form celestial meet ; Though now with hopeless toil we trace Time's backward rolls , to find its place ; Whether the fiery - tressed Dane , Or Roman's ...
... soul enforcing Goddess ! stood ; There oft the painted native's fect Were wont thy form celestial meet ; Though now with hopeless toil we trace Time's backward rolls , to find its place ; Whether the fiery - tressed Dane , Or Roman's ...
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