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The Muse ! whate'er the Muse inspires , My soul the tuneful strain admires :Nor Greece nor Rome delights me more Than Tagus ' bank , or Thames's shore t : From silver Avon's flowery side Though Shakspeare's numbers sweetly glide ...
The Muse ! whate'er the Muse inspires , My soul the tuneful strain admires :Nor Greece nor Rome delights me more Than Tagus ' bank , or Thames's shore t : From silver Avon's flowery side Though Shakspeare's numbers sweetly glide ...
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... he describes as at once so amiable and so great ; and bewails the loss of all his former friends , kindred , and companions , and laments his own forlorn and disconsolate state , in apostrophes that pierce the very soul of pity * !
... he describes as at once so amiable and so great ; and bewails the loss of all his former friends , kindred , and companions , and laments his own forlorn and disconsolate state , in apostrophes that pierce the very soul of pity * !
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Itm I will that ev'ry curate wthin Westmoreland and the deanery of Craven , and elsewhere wher I have any land in England , doe cause a masse of requiem and dirige to be songe or saide for my soul wthin every ył ...
Itm I will that ev'ry curate wthin Westmoreland and the deanery of Craven , and elsewhere wher I have any land in England , doe cause a masse of requiem and dirige to be songe or saide for my soul wthin every ył ...
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Shall we say that the soul of one of the Nortons had taken up its abode in that animal , and was condemned to do penance for his transgressions against the lord's dere ' among their ashes ? But for such a spirit the wild stag would have ...
Shall we say that the soul of one of the Nortons had taken up its abode in that animal , and was condemned to do penance for his transgressions against the lord's dere ' among their ashes ? But for such a spirit the wild stag would have ...
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He had been ill , there is reason to suppose , nearly a twelvemonth previous to his death ; for the preamble to his last will , dated May 8th , 1569 , runs thus : “ Henry earl of Cumberland , then not healthful of bodyė , gives his soul ...
He had been ill , there is reason to suppose , nearly a twelvemonth previous to his death ; for the preamble to his last will , dated May 8th , 1569 , runs thus : “ Henry earl of Cumberland , then not healthful of bodyė , gives his soul ...
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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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