The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 24A. Constable, 1814 |
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Page 28
... beauty . • Then having reached a bridge , that overarched The hasty rivulet where it lay becalmed In a deep pool , by happy chance we saw A two - fold Image ; on a grassy bank A snow - white Ram , and in the crystal flood Another and ...
... beauty . • Then having reached a bridge , that overarched The hasty rivulet where it lay becalmed In a deep pool , by happy chance we saw A two - fold Image ; on a grassy bank A snow - white Ram , and in the crystal flood Another and ...
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... beauty . Not a leaf That flutters on the bough more light than he , And not a flower that droops in the green shade , More winningly reserved . Nor are there wanting morsels of a sterner and more majestic beauty ; as when , assuming the ...
... beauty . Not a leaf That flutters on the bough more light than he , And not a flower that droops in the green shade , More winningly reserved . Nor are there wanting morsels of a sterner and more majestic beauty ; as when , assuming the ...
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... Beauty , and of the minute care with which she brings forward her graces ' to the field of conquest , so it not unfrequently flows with a kind of gentle languor , ' as bewitching as the same fea- ture in the smiles of a coquette , and ...
... Beauty , and of the minute care with which she brings forward her graces ' to the field of conquest , so it not unfrequently flows with a kind of gentle languor , ' as bewitching as the same fea- ture in the smiles of a coquette , and ...
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The Excursion being a portion of the Recluse | 1 |
On the Light of the Cassegrainian Telescope com | 31 |
Select Passages of the Writings of St Chrysostom | 58 |
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