PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page xii
... night after reading the Bible to his family , closed the book and explained to his children the cause of the rebellion , adding , that our nation was in the wrong , and that it was not right to wish the Americans should be con- xii SOME ...
... night after reading the Bible to his family , closed the book and explained to his children the cause of the rebellion , adding , that our nation was in the wrong , and that it was not right to wish the Americans should be con- xii SOME ...
Page xxiii
... Night . Burns was driven by neglect to become an officer of the Excise in the very year that Mr. Rogers , with whom poetry was the uppermost thought in his mind , was asking to be introduced to the literary men of Scotland . The ...
... Night . Burns was driven by neglect to become an officer of the Excise in the very year that Mr. Rogers , with whom poetry was the uppermost thought in his mind , was asking to be introduced to the literary men of Scotland . The ...
Page xxvii
... night after a tragedy . It playfully describes the life of a fashionable lady , in the style of Shake- spear's Seven Ages of Man . Mrs. Siddons was much pleased with it , but took the liberty , when she spoke it , of curtailing it and a ...
... night after a tragedy . It playfully describes the life of a fashionable lady , in the style of Shake- spear's Seven Ages of Man . Mrs. Siddons was much pleased with it , but took the liberty , when she spoke it , of curtailing it and a ...
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... night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY , hail ! Oh grant the grateful Muse , Her pencil dipt in Nature's living hues , To ...
... night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY , hail ! Oh grant the grateful Muse , Her pencil dipt in Nature's living hues , To ...
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... night . That eye so finely wrought , Beyond the search of sense , the soar of thought , Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind ; Its orb so full , its vision so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her ...
... night . That eye so finely wrought , Beyond the search of sense , the soar of thought , Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind ; Its orb so full , its vision so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her ...
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admiration Ęschylus ancient beautiful bids blessed blest breathe bright called CANTO CHARLES JAMES FOX charm Cicero Columbus dark death delight dream Euripides eyes father fear feelings fled flowers fond gaze Gilbert Wakefield glows Goodall grey grove hail hand hear heart Heaven Hence Herodotus Herrera Hist hope hour Household Deities hung Icarius Italy light line 15 lived look Lord mind musing Newington Green night o'er once Petrarch Pleasures of Memory poems Poet resigned Richard Sharp rise Rogers round sacred sail Samuel Rogers sate says scene secret shade shed shine sigh silent sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit stood Stothard Stourbridge sung sweet swell taste tears thee thine Thomas Rogers thou thought thro trace trembling triumph Turner Twas verse virtue voice wake wandering wave weep wild wings wish Worcestershire young youth