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... Songs and Song Writers Elegies A Winter Morning The Snow Storm . Moods of the Mind . 32 35 www 36 37 No I. Despondency . - A Reverie .... 45 No II . The Woodland Glen . 46 No III . The Isle of Despair . - A Professor Brown's Outlines of ...
... Songs and Song Writers Elegies A Winter Morning The Snow Storm . Moods of the Mind . 32 35 www 36 37 No I. Despondency . - A Reverie .... 45 No II . The Woodland Glen . 46 No III . The Isle of Despair . - A Professor Brown's Outlines of ...
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... scrolls of Fate , A day may come when we may cease our woe , And she , redeemed at last from Pluto's hate , Rise , in her beauty old , pure and regenerate . C. ON SONGS AND SONG WRITERS . 1820. ] 31 The Rape of Proserpine .
... scrolls of Fate , A day may come when we may cease our woe , And she , redeemed at last from Pluto's hate , Rise , in her beauty old , pure and regenerate . C. ON SONGS AND SONG WRITERS . 1820. ] 31 The Rape of Proserpine .
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ON SONGS AND SONG WRITERS . ELEGY I. ELEGY II . THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE . MR EDITOR , EVERY one who has dabbled in verse , must have found the difficulty of writ- ing a tolerably satisfactory song ... Song Writing . On Songs and Song Writers.
ON SONGS AND SONG WRITERS . ELEGY I. ELEGY II . THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE . MR EDITOR , EVERY one who has dabbled in verse , must have found the difficulty of writ- ing a tolerably satisfactory song ... Song Writing . On Songs and Song Writers.
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... song of the time . A little later , Ben Jonson's S , " drink to me only with thine eyes , " is much and deservedly celebrated . Those witty and elegant verses which are called the songs of Charles the Second's time , are nearly ...
... song of the time . A little later , Ben Jonson's S , " drink to me only with thine eyes , " is much and deservedly celebrated . Those witty and elegant verses which are called the songs of Charles the Second's time , are nearly ...
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... song of " The Charge is prepared , " it must be recollected , that we set out with a highwayman for a hero , and the whole action is under the atmosphere of New- gate . The songs of the Duenna I must always regard as the weakest part of ...
... song of " The Charge is prepared , " it must be recollected , that we set out with a highwayman for a hero , and the whole action is under the atmosphere of New- gate . The songs of the Duenna I must always regard as the weakest part of ...
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Page 166 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
Page 149 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 166 - In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel...
Page 269 - The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages; that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.
Page 436 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Page 269 - ... monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen, with no brains at all. On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woollen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say yah Mynheer...
Page 202 - THE FANCY: A Selection from the Poetical Remains of the late Peter Corcoran, of Gray's Inn, student at law. With a brief Memoir of his life.
Page 141 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 75 - With cool and verdant gardens interspersed ; Here towers of war that frown in massy strength. While over all hangs the rich purple eve, As conscious of its being her last farewell Of light and glory to that fated city. And. as our clouds of battle dust and smoke Are melted into air, behold the Temple...
Page 269 - The company being seated around the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in lanching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish — in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon in the lakes.