The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Hours of IdlenessBaynes and Son, 1824 - 446 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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... 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 . As once , if not 22 TO SIMPLICITY .
... 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 . As once , if not 22 TO SIMPLICITY .
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... sound , Now sublimest triumph swelling , Now on love and mercy dwelling ; And she , from out the veiling cloud , Florimel . See Spenser , Leg . 4th . 24 ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . Breathed her magic notes 23 On the Poetical Character.
... sound , Now sublimest triumph swelling , Now on love and mercy dwelling ; And she , from out the veiling cloud , Florimel . See Spenser , Leg . 4th . 24 ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . Breathed her magic notes 23 On the Poetical Character.
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... sounds would court thy ears , Let not my shell's misguided power E'er draw thy sad , thy mindful tears . No , Freedom ! no , I will not tell How Rome , before thy weeping face , With heaviest sound , a giant statue , fell , Push'd by a ...
... sounds would court thy ears , Let not my shell's misguided power E'er draw thy sad , thy mindful tears . No , Freedom ! no , I will not tell How Rome , before thy weeping face , With heaviest sound , a giant statue , fell , Push'd by a ...
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... sound , The nations shout to her around , ' Oh how supremely art thou blest ! Thou , lady - thou shalt rule the West ! " TO A LADY , On the Death of Colonel Charles Ross , in the Action at Fontenoy . Written May , 1745 . WHILE , lost to ...
... sound , The nations shout to her around , ' Oh how supremely art thou blest ! Thou , lady - thou shalt rule the West ! " TO A LADY , On the Death of Colonel Charles Ross , in the Action at Fontenoy . Written May , 1745 . WHILE , lost to ...
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