Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 էջ "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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... bright confines , whence , with neighbour- ing arms And opportune excursion , we may chance Re - enter Heaven : or else in some mild zone Dwell , not unvisited of Heaven's fair light , given To us enslav'd , but custody severe And ...
... bright confines , whence , with neighbour- ing arms And opportune excursion , we may chance Re - enter Heaven : or else in some mild zone Dwell , not unvisited of Heaven's fair light , given To us enslav'd , but custody severe And ...
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... bright Then shining heavenly fair , a goddess arm'd , Out of thy head I sprung : amazement seiz'd All the host of Heaven ; back they recoil'd afraid At first , and call'd me Sin , and for a sign Portentous held me ; but , familiar grown ...
... bright Then shining heavenly fair , a goddess arm'd , Out of thy head I sprung : amazement seiz'd All the host of Heaven ; back they recoil'd afraid At first , and call'd me Sin , and for a sign Portentous held me ; but , familiar grown ...
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... Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hear'st thou rather , pure etherial stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a mantle , didst invest The ...
... Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hear'st thou rather , pure etherial stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a mantle , didst invest The ...
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... bright Pavement , that like a sea of jasper shone , Impurpled with celestial roses smil'd . Then , crown'd again , their golden harps they took , Harps ever tun'd , that glittering by their side Like quivers hung , and with preamble ...
... bright Pavement , that like a sea of jasper shone , Impurpled with celestial roses smil'd . Then , crown'd again , their golden harps they took , Harps ever tun'd , that glittering by their side Like quivers hung , and with preamble ...
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... bright , when he from Esau fled To Padan - Aram , in the field of Luz Dreaming by night under the open sky , And waking cried , " This is the gate of Heaven . " Each stair mysteriously was meant , nor stood There always , but drawn up ...
... bright , when he from Esau fled To Padan - Aram , in the field of Luz Dreaming by night under the open sky , And waking cried , " This is the gate of Heaven . " Each stair mysteriously was meant , nor stood There always , but drawn up ...
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