The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... teach , Mean you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire The Muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel ...
... teach , Mean you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire The Muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel ...
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... teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstasy , unmanacled by form , Not prompted , as in our degenerate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise , Was natural as ...
... teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstasy , unmanacled by form , Not prompted , as in our degenerate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise , Was natural as ...
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... teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy fills , Musical as the chime of tinkling rills , Weak to perform , though mighty to pretend , Can trace her mazy windings to their end ; Discern the fraud beneath the specious lure , Prevent ...
... teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy fills , Musical as the chime of tinkling rills , Weak to perform , though mighty to pretend , Can trace her mazy windings to their end ; Discern the fraud beneath the specious lure , Prevent ...
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... teach her , unexperienced yet and green , To scribble as you scribbled at fifteen : Who , kindling a combustion of desire , With some cold moral think to quench the fire ; Though all your engineering proves in vain , The dribbling ...
... teach her , unexperienced yet and green , To scribble as you scribbled at fifteen : Who , kindling a combustion of desire , With some cold moral think to quench the fire ; Though all your engineering proves in vain , The dribbling ...
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... Teach him to fence and figure twice a week ; And having done , we think , the best we can , Praise his proficiency , and dub him man . From school to Cam or Isis , and thence home ; And thence with all convenient speed to Rome . With ...
... Teach him to fence and figure twice a week ; And having done , we think , the best we can , Praise his proficiency , and dub him man . From school to Cam or Isis , and thence home ; And thence with all convenient speed to Rome . With ...
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