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... His hand was ay upon his knife ; nor will the reader forbear to admire the sweet moral pathos which has given an undying charm to the beautiful stanzas on Winter . If we now take a retrospect of our British poetry from the period of ...
... His hand was ay upon his knife ; nor will the reader forbear to admire the sweet moral pathos which has given an undying charm to the beautiful stanzas on Winter . If we now take a retrospect of our British poetry from the period of ...
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The British Muse is not yet informed that she has an elder sister in this isle ; let us then introduce them to each other ! together let them walk abroad from their bowers , sweet ambassadresses of cordial union between two countries ...
The British Muse is not yet informed that she has an elder sister in this isle ; let us then introduce them to each other ! together let them walk abroad from their bowers , sweet ambassadresses of cordial union between two countries ...
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Beside communicating with the works which I have just mentioned , he undertook the poetical department in a review of considerable popularity , and became also an occasional writer , both in the British and Gentleman's Magazines .
Beside communicating with the works which I have just mentioned , he undertook the poetical department in a review of considerable popularity , and became also an occasional writer , both in the British and Gentleman's Magazines .
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favoured hero , Hengist , king of the Saxons ; whilst , on the other side , Merlin , the great prophet of the Celts , aids the British prince in defeating the machinations of the demons of Scandinavia . With such materials , and with ...
favoured hero , Hengist , king of the Saxons ; whilst , on the other side , Merlin , the great prophet of the Celts , aids the British prince in defeating the machinations of the demons of Scandinavia . With such materials , and with ...
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For some days the British knights meet with no equal opponents ; but , at length , Valdemar and Hengist , the kings of Dacia and of Saxony , and the first amongst the warriors of the North , enter the lists ; and the latter , bearing ...
For some days the British knights meet with no equal opponents ; but , at length , Valdemar and Hengist , the kings of Dacia and of Saxony , and the first amongst the warriors of the North , enter the lists ; and the latter , bearing ...
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Page 319 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 84 - And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...
Page 110 - gainst age, and age at youth hath spurn'd : But spurn'd in vain, youth waneth by increasing ; Beauty, strength, and youth, flowers fading been ; Duty, faith, and love, are roots and evergreen. My helmet now shall make a hive for bees ; And lovers...
Page 318 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 304 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 313 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 301 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 319 - A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing, Now on the polar...
Page 78 - The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ' stands upon a beautiful curvature of the Wharf, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from inundations, and low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect.
Page 30 - It is the practice of the young men of Dumfries to meet in the streets during the hours of remission from labour, and by these means I had an opportunity of witnessing the general solicitude of all ranks and of all ages. His differences with them on...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2007 |
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