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... wave , That Granta's Bard should find a distant grave . Dear White ! thou " sitsť " not " a lorn spectre there : ” * No - for , in Heaven , thy harp knows no despair . Of Genius brighter , but less gracious mould , Precocious CHATTERTON ...
... wave , That Granta's Bard should find a distant grave . Dear White ! thou " sitsť " not " a lorn spectre there : ” * No - for , in Heaven , thy harp knows no despair . Of Genius brighter , but less gracious mould , Precocious CHATTERTON ...
Page 14
... wave the bright flambeau ! " The Loves of Angels !! " how can such things be ? How came such feculence reveal'd to thee ? Too much have OVID and TIBULLUS wrote ; Too much , in Greek , that old lascivious goat ; Why add fresh rubbish to ...
... wave the bright flambeau ! " The Loves of Angels !! " how can such things be ? How came such feculence reveal'd to thee ? Too much have OVID and TIBULLUS wrote ; Too much , in Greek , that old lascivious goat ; Why add fresh rubbish to ...
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... wave , Alone might serve , had he no higher claim , To give a deathless splendour to his name . * Montgomery's " Wanderer in Switzerland " and " West Indies . " Truth , Beauty , Grandeur , weave a fairy chain 20 THE BARDIAD .
... wave , Alone might serve , had he no higher claim , To give a deathless splendour to his name . * Montgomery's " Wanderer in Switzerland " and " West Indies . " Truth , Beauty , Grandeur , weave a fairy chain 20 THE BARDIAD .
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... wave asleep , Anon her mountains foaming from the deep , - Her tides obsequious to the sand - girt shore , - The zephyrs mild - the ruthless whirlwind's roar , — The heights precipitous , in snowy shroud , Or lightning - scorch'd and ...
... wave asleep , Anon her mountains foaming from the deep , - Her tides obsequious to the sand - girt shore , - The zephyrs mild - the ruthless whirlwind's roar , — The heights precipitous , in snowy shroud , Or lightning - scorch'd and ...
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... waves of sullen ocean roll , Far from the cypress and the village - toll , From the cold deck the putrid carcase falls , When the blue grave of starless midnight calls , Nor leave we thus without his censure just , The obnoxious ...
... waves of sullen ocean roll , Far from the cypress and the village - toll , From the cold deck the putrid carcase falls , When the blue grave of starless midnight calls , Nor leave we thus without his censure just , The obnoxious ...
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