The Pleasures of MemoryS. Archer, 1815 - 54 pages |
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... hear the minstrel play , And games and carols clos'd the busy day . Her wheel at rest , the matron charms no more , With treasur❜d tales , and legendary lore . All , all are fled ; nor mirth nor music flows , To chase the dreams of ...
... hear the minstrel play , And games and carols clos'd the busy day . Her wheel at rest , the matron charms no more , With treasur❜d tales , and legendary lore . All , all are fled ; nor mirth nor music flows , To chase the dreams of ...
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... hear When soft it spoke a promis'd pleasure near ; And has its sober hand , its simple chime , Forgot to trace the feather'd feet of Time ? That massive beam , with curious carvings wrought , Whence the caged linnet sooth'd my pensive ...
... hear When soft it spoke a promis'd pleasure near ; And has its sober hand , its simple chime , Forgot to trace the feather'd feet of Time ? That massive beam , with curious carvings wrought , Whence the caged linnet sooth'd my pensive ...
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... whose hapless fate ( g ) Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate , When exile wore his blooming years away , To sorrow's long soliloquies a prey , When reason , justice , vainly urg'd his cause— For PLEASURES OF MEMORY . 15.
... whose hapless fate ( g ) Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate , When exile wore his blooming years away , To sorrow's long soliloquies a prey , When reason , justice , vainly urg'd his cause— For PLEASURES OF MEMORY . 15.
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... hears him roll His moral thunders o'er the subject soul ? And hence that calm delight the portrait gives ; We gaze on every feature till it lives ! Still the fond lover views the absent maid ; And the lost friend still lingers in his ...
... hears him roll His moral thunders o'er the subject soul ? And hence that calm delight the portrait gives ; We gaze on every feature till it lives ! Still the fond lover views the absent maid ; And the lost friend still lingers in his ...
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... hears the song so sweetly wild , ( m ) Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguil'd , Melts at the long lost scenes that round him rise , And sinks , a martyr to repentant sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm ; Say ...
... hears the song so sweetly wild , ( m ) Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguil'd , Melts at the long lost scenes that round him rise , And sinks , a martyr to repentant sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm ; Say ...
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