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Page 11
... Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires . Place me where Winter breathes his keenest air , And I will sing , if , Liberty be ...
... Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires . Place me where Winter breathes his keenest air , And I will sing , if , Liberty be ...
Page 18
... fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment were sacrificed to sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged ...
... fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment were sacrificed to sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged ...
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... fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste : But , when the second Charles assumed the sway , And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , The mind , released from too constrain'd a nerve ...
... fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste : But , when the second Charles assumed the sway , And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , The mind , released from too constrain'd a nerve ...
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... Fancy , that from the bow that spans the sky , Brings colours dipp'd in heaven , that never die ; A soul , exalted above earth , a mind Skill'd in the characters that form mankind ; And as the Sun , in rising beauty dress'd , Looks to ...
... Fancy , that from the bow that spans the sky , Brings colours dipp'd in heaven , that never die ; A soul , exalted above earth , a mind Skill'd in the characters that form mankind ; And as the Sun , in rising beauty dress'd , Looks to ...
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... , Pope's numbers , Prior's ease , With all that Fancy can invent to please , Adorn the polish'd periods as they fall , One madrigal of theirs is worth them all . E A. ' Twould thin the ranks of the poetic tribe . TABLE TALK . 25.
... , Pope's numbers , Prior's ease , With all that Fancy can invent to please , Adorn the polish'd periods as they fall , One madrigal of theirs is worth them all . E A. ' Twould thin the ranks of the poetic tribe . TABLE TALK . 25.
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beams beneath bids bless'd bliss blooming groves boast BODHAM breast call'd charms Cheapside CHISWICK courser dark dear deeds delight design'd divine dream e'en earth Edmonton errours eyes fair Fancy fear feel fire flowers folly fool form'd frown GEORGE ROMNEY Gilpin give glory God's grace hand happy hast hate heart Heaven heavenly hope hour JOHN GILPIN labour land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mind muse Nature never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps Pharisee pleasure poet poet's praise pride proud prove Rome rude sacred scene scorn scorn'd Scripture seem'd shine sight sithe skies smile song SONNET sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste tears telescopic eye tempest thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler true truth Twas verse VIRG virtue waste Whate'er wild WILLIAM COWPER wintry wisdom zeal