Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 páginas "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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... light ; but rather darkness visible , Serv'd only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a ...
... light ; but rather darkness visible , Serv'd only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a ...
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... light , Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; And , re - assembling our afflicted powers ...
... light , Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; And , re - assembling our afflicted powers ...
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... light and bliss , among The gods who live at case , where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling , without end . " Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe ...
... light and bliss , among The gods who live at case , where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling , without end . " Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe ...
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... light ; when straight behold the Pav'd after him a broad and beaten way throne Of Chaos , and his dark pavilion spread I Wide on the wasteful deep : with him enthron'd Sat sable - vested Night , eldest of things , The consort of his ...
... light ; when straight behold the Pav'd after him a broad and beaten way throne Of Chaos , and his dark pavilion spread I Wide on the wasteful deep : with him enthron'd Sat sable - vested Night , eldest of things , The consort of his ...
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... light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee , Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hear'st thou rather , pure etherial stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before ...
... light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee , Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hear'st thou rather , pure etherial stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before ...
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