Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... sound is't strikes mine ear ? Sure I Fame's trumpet hear : It sounds like the last trumpet ; for it can Raise up the buried man . Unpast Alps stop me ; but I'll cut them all , And march , the Muses ' Hannibal . Hence , all the ...
... sound is't strikes mine ear ? Sure I Fame's trumpet hear : It sounds like the last trumpet ; for it can Raise up the buried man . Unpast Alps stop me ; but I'll cut them all , And march , the Muses ' Hannibal . Hence , all the ...
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... sound not too profane and odd , Oh , my master and my god ! For ' tis true , most mighty poet ! ( Though I like not men should know it ) I am in naked Nature less , Less by much , than in thy dress . All thy verse is softer far Than the ...
... sound not too profane and odd , Oh , my master and my god ! For ' tis true , most mighty poet ! ( Though I like not men should know it ) I am in naked Nature less , Less by much , than in thy dress . All thy verse is softer far Than the ...
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... sounds that may prevail ; Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire : Though so exalted she And I so lowly be , Tell her , such different notes make all thy har- mony . Hark ! how the strings awake : And , though the moving hand approach not ...
... sounds that may prevail ; Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire : Though so exalted she And I so lowly be , Tell her , such different notes make all thy har- mony . Hark ! how the strings awake : And , though the moving hand approach not ...
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... sound To many a youth , and many a maid , Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday , Till the livelong day - light fail : Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a ...
... sound To many a youth , and many a maid , Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday , Till the livelong day - light fail : Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a ...
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... sound would not be absent long ; And old Damætas lov'd to hear our song . But , O the heavy change , now thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! Thee , shepherd , thee the woods , and desert caves With wild thyme and ...
... sound would not be absent long ; And old Damætas lov'd to hear our song . But , O the heavy change , now thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! Thee , shepherd , thee the woods , and desert caves With wild thyme and ...
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