Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 2Robert Chambers J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1856 - English literature |
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... thee down With greater ease than e'er thou didst the stripling That rashly dared thee to the unequal fight . What groan was that I heard ? Deep groan , indeed , With anguish heavy laden ! let me trace it : From yonder bed it comes ...
... thee down With greater ease than e'er thou didst the stripling That rashly dared thee to the unequal fight . What groan was that I heard ? Deep groan , indeed , With anguish heavy laden ! let me trace it : From yonder bed it comes ...
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... thee safe ! where vernal suns and showers Diffuse their warmest , largest influence ; And of my garden be the pride and joy ! Ill it befits thee , oh , it ill befits Acasto's daughter , his whose open stores , Though vast , were little ...
... thee safe ! where vernal suns and showers Diffuse their warmest , largest influence ; And of my garden be the pride and joy ! Ill it befits thee , oh , it ill befits Acasto's daughter , his whose open stores , Though vast , were little ...
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... thee . Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks , thy tenderness and love . Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense and every heart is joy . Then comes thy ...
... thee . Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks , thy tenderness and love . Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense and every heart is joy . Then comes thy ...
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... thee belongs the rural reign ; Thy cities shall with commerce shine ; All shall be subject to the main , And every shore it circles thine . Rule Britannia , & c . The muses , still with freedom found , Shall to thy happy coast repair ...
... thee belongs the rural reign ; Thy cities shall with commerce shine ; All shall be subject to the main , And every shore it circles thine . Rule Britannia , & c . The muses , still with freedom found , Shall to thy happy coast repair ...
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... thee better . Busk ye , then busk , my bonny bonny bride , Busk ye , busk ye , my winsome marrow , Busk ye , and lue me on the banks of Tweed , And think nae mair on the Braes of Yarrow . C. How can I busk a bonny bonny bride , How can ...
... thee better . Busk ye , then busk , my bonny bonny bride , Busk ye , busk ye , my winsome marrow , Busk ye , and lue me on the banks of Tweed , And think nae mair on the Braes of Yarrow . C. How can I busk a bonny bonny bride , How can ...
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ancient appeared beauty beneath blank verse breast breath bright character charms clouds Colonsay dark dear death deep delight Dr Johnson earth England fair fame fancy father fear feel flowers genius grace grave green hand happy hast hear heard heart heaven hill honour hope Horace Walpole hour human king labour Lady light live look Lord Lord Byron lyre mind moral morning mountains mourn muse native nature never night o'er pain passion peace pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise pride published racter rill Rodmond round scene Scotland seems shade sigh Sir Walter Scott sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit stream style sublime sweet taste tears tender thee thou thought tion Tom Jones Twas uncle Toby vale verse virtue voice wandering wave wild wind young youth