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Stilled is the hum that thro ' the hamlet broke , When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play , And games and carols closed the busy day . Her wheel at rest , the matron thrills no more With ...
Stilled is the hum that thro ' the hamlet broke , When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play , And games and carols closed the busy day . Her wheel at rest , the matron thrills no more With ...
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Tis but to die , and then , to weep no more , Then will he wake on Congo's distant shore ; Beneath his plantain's ancient shade renew The simple transports that with freedom flew ; Catch the cool breeze that musky Evening blows ...
Tis but to die , and then , to weep no more , Then will he wake on Congo's distant shore ; Beneath his plantain's ancient shade renew The simple transports that with freedom flew ; Catch the cool breeze that musky Evening blows ...
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... The rocky pass half - hung with shaggy wood , And the cleft oak flung boldly o'er the flood ; Nor shunned the track , unknown to human tread , That downward to the night of caverns led ; Some ancient cataract's deserted bed .
... The rocky pass half - hung with shaggy wood , And the cleft oak flung boldly o'er the flood ; Nor shunned the track , unknown to human tread , That downward to the night of caverns led ; Some ancient cataract's deserted bed .
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When a traveller , who was surveying the ruins of Rome , expressed a desire to possess some relic of its ancient grandeur , Poussin , who attended him , stooped down , and gathering up a handful of earth shining with small grains of ...
When a traveller , who was surveying the ruins of Rome , expressed a desire to possess some relic of its ancient grandeur , Poussin , who attended him , stooped down , and gathering up a handful of earth shining with small grains of ...
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But among many of the ancient nations it was otherwise ; and they reaped the benefit of it . Rien ne maintient plus les mœurs , qu'une extrême subordination des jeunes gens envers les vieillards . Les uns et les autres seront contenus ...
But among many of the ancient nations it was otherwise ; and they reaped the benefit of it . Rien ne maintient plus les mœurs , qu'une extrême subordination des jeunes gens envers les vieillards . Les uns et les autres seront contenus ...
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Page 15 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 294 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 113 - Though Somnus in Homer be sent to rouse up Agamemnon, I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia.
Page 101 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Page 106 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
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Page 50 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
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| Title | Poems |
| Author | Samuel Rogers |
| Illustrated by | Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Stothard |
| Publisher | T. Cadell, and E. Moxon, 1834 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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