Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Հատոր 1"The object of this work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical poets, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with biographical and critical notices of their authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth" -- Page [i]. |
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Lay thy bow of pearl apart , And thy crystal - shining quiver ; Give unto the flying
heart Space to breathe , how short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night ,
Goddess excellently bright . 7. A murderer , yonder , was hung in chains , The
sun and ...
Lay thy bow of pearl apart , And thy crystal - shining quiver ; Give unto the flying
heart Space to breathe , how short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night ,
Goddess excellently bright . 7. A murderer , yonder , was hung in chains , The
sun and ...
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When God to his own people said Thus , with Sapphira and her husband's fate , (
The men whom through long wanderings he had led ) | ( A fault which I , like them
, am taught too late , ) That he would give them ev'n a heaven of For all that I ...
When God to his own people said Thus , with Sapphira and her husband's fate , (
The men whom through long wanderings he had led ) | ( A fault which I , like them
, am taught too late , ) That he would give them ev'n a heaven of For all that I ...
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And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns , There entertain him all the
saints above , And wield their little tridents : but this isle , In solemn troops , and
sweet societies , The greatest and the best of all the main , That sing , and ...
And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns , There entertain him all the
saints above , And wield their little tridents : but this isle , In solemn troops , and
sweet societies , The greatest and the best of all the main , That sing , and ...
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... lickerish baits , fit to ensnare a brute ? 700 Enter'd the very lime - twigs of his
spells , Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , And yet came off : if you
have this about you , I would not taste thy treasonous offer ; none As ( I will give
you ...
... lickerish baits , fit to ensnare a brute ? 700 Enter'd the very lime - twigs of his
spells , Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , And yet came off : if you
have this about you , I would not taste thy treasonous offer ; none As ( I will give
you ...
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Therefore what he gives Endued with various forms , various degree ( Whose
praise be ever sung ) to Man in part Of ... the purer , earth the sea , To vital spirits
aspire , to animal , now rests To intellectual ; give both life and sense 60 MILTON
.
Therefore what he gives Endued with various forms , various degree ( Whose
praise be ever sung ) to Man in part Of ... the purer , earth the sea , To vital spirits
aspire , to animal , now rests To intellectual ; give both life and sense 60 MILTON
.
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| Վերնագիր | Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Հատոր 1 Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, John Aikin |
| Editor | John Aikin |
| Աջակցող | John Aikin |
| Հրատարակիչ | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820 |
| Original from | Կալիֆորնիայի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 24 Հոկտեմբեր 2007 |
| Length | 807 էջ |
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