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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The dreadful storms at sea he never heard . By thee the one does changing
Nature , through He never heard the shrill alarms of war , Her endless labyrinths ,
pursue ; And th ' other chases woman , whilst she goes Or the worse noises of the
...
The dreadful storms at sea he never heard . By thee the one does changing
Nature , through He never heard the shrill alarms of war , Her endless labyrinths ,
pursue ; And th ' other chases woman , whilst she goes Or the worse noises of the
...
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For we were nurs'd upon the self - same hill , Of pine , or monumental oak , Fed
the same flock , by fountain , shade , and rill . Where the rude axe , with heaved
stroke , Together both , ere the high lawns appear'd Was never heard the nymphs
...
For we were nurs'd upon the self - same hill , Of pine , or monumental oak , Fed
the same flock , by fountain , shade , and rill . Where the rude axe , with heaved
stroke , Together both , ere the high lawns appear'd Was never heard the nymphs
...
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Such noise as I can make to be heard farthest Lad . How easy my misfortune is to
hit ! I'll venture ; for my new - enliven'd spirits Com . Imports their loss , beside the
present need ? Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . Lad . No less ...
Such noise as I can make to be heard farthest Lad . How easy my misfortune is to
hit ! I'll venture ; for my new - enliven'd spirits Com . Imports their loss , beside the
present need ? Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . Lad . No less ...
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... Invests the sea , and wished morn delays : If once they hear that voice , their
liveliest pledge So stretch'd out huge in length the arch - fiend lay Of hope in
fears and dangers , heard so oft Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence In
worst ...
... Invests the sea , and wished morn delays : If once they hear that voice , their
liveliest pledge So stretch'd out huge in length the arch - fiend lay Of hope in
fears and dangers , heard so oft Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence In
worst ...
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... anchors in a craggy bay Or substance , how endued , and what their power ,
After the tempest : such applause was heard And where their weakness , how
attempted best , As Mammon ended , and his sentence pleas'd , By force or
subtlety .
... anchors in a craggy bay Or substance , how endued , and what their power ,
After the tempest : such applause was heard And where their weakness , how
attempted best , As Mammon ended , and his sentence pleas'd , By force or
subtlety .
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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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