The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... sound's sweet charms entrance , And the fond breast with generous passion warm ? What boots the power each image to portray , The power with force each feeling to express ? How vain the hope that through life's little day , The soul ...
... sound's sweet charms entrance , And the fond breast with generous passion warm ? What boots the power each image to portray , The power with force each feeling to express ? How vain the hope that through life's little day , The soul ...
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... sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not with light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin ...
... sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not with light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin ...
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... sound , Now sublimest triumph swelling , Now on love and mercy dwelling ; And she , from out the veiling cloud , Breathed her magic notes aloud : And thou , thou rich - hair'd youth of morn , And all thy subject life was born ! C The ...
... sound , Now sublimest triumph swelling , Now on love and mercy dwelling ; And she , from out the veiling cloud , Breathed her magic notes aloud : And thou , thou rich - hair'd youth of morn , And all thy subject life was born ! C The ...
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... sounds to life The youths , whose locks divinely spreading , Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue , At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding , \\ Applauding Freedom loved of old to view ? What new Alcæus , fancy - blest , Shall ...
... sounds to life The youths , whose locks divinely spreading , Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue , At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding , \\ Applauding Freedom loved of old to view ? What new Alcæus , fancy - blest , Shall ...
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... sound , a giant statue , fell , Push'd by a wild and artless race From off its wide ambitious base , When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke , And all the blended work of strength and grace , With many a rude repeated stroke , १ And ...
... sound , a giant statue , fell , Push'd by a wild and artless race From off its wide ambitious base , When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke , And all the blended work of strength and grace , With many a rude repeated stroke , १ And ...
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