The Pleasures of MemoryE.H. Butler, 1861 - 110 pages |
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... fate 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 urged his cause , For this he roused her sanguinary laws ; Glad to return ...
... fate 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 urged his cause , For this he roused her sanguinary laws ; Glad to return ...
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... Fate ? Hers what no wealth can buy , no power create ! A little world of clear and cloudless day , Nor wrecked by storms , nor mouldered by decay ; A world , with MEMORY'S ceaseless sunshine blest , The home of Happiness , an honest ...
... Fate ? Hers what no wealth can buy , no power create ! A little world of clear and cloudless day , Nor wrecked by storms , nor mouldered by decay ; A world , with MEMORY'S ceaseless sunshine blest , The home of Happiness , an honest ...
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... fate of a brave people recently conspicuous in their struggles for independence — descrip- tion of the capture of Warsaw , of the last contest of the oppressors and the oppressed , and the massacre of the Polish patriots at the bridge ...
... fate of a brave people recently conspicuous in their struggles for independence — descrip- tion of the capture of Warsaw , of the last contest of the oppressors and the oppressed , and the massacre of the Polish patriots at the bridge ...
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... fate of man- Her dim horizon bounded to a span ; Or , if she hold an image to the view , ' Tis Nature pictured too severely true . With thee , sweet HOPE ! resides the heavenly light , That pours remotest rapture on the sight : Thine is ...
... fate of man- Her dim horizon bounded to a span ; Or , if she hold an image to the view , ' Tis Nature pictured too severely true . With thee , sweet HOPE ! resides the heavenly light , That pours remotest rapture on the sight : Thine is ...
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... fate , the woes of human kind , Thy blissful omens bid my spirit see The boundless fields of rapture yet to be ; I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan , And learn the future by the past of man . Come , bright Improvement ! on the car ...
... fate , the woes of human kind , Thy blissful omens bid my spirit see The boundless fields of rapture yet to be ; I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan , And learn the future by the past of man . Come , bright Improvement ! on the car ...
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beneath blazing bleeding blest bliss breathed breeze bright Briton burst calm charm chase child child of Heaven clime clouds deep delight doom dread dream dust earth Fancy Fancy's fate fire fled fond gaze Genius glows grove hail hand Hark hath heart Heaven heavenly Hindoo hour isles life's light lingering live lonely Loxian melancholy mind mingles murmurs Muse native Nature Nature's night o'er pause peace pensive Plato Poem rapture repose rocks round rude sacred SAMUEL ROGERS sapient scenes seraph shade shore sigh silent SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE slumber smile song soothe sorrow soul sphere spirit spring storm sublime sweet tears thee THOMAS CAMPBELL thou thought thoughts inspire thunder trace trembling triumph Truth Twas vale VESPASIAN VIRGIL's tomb Virtue wandering watch wave weep wheels wild winds wing woes worlds unknown wretch youth