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... Song can move the sense . " This sort of delusion is not favourable to the progress of the human un- derstanding . The true poet has an instinctive aversion to the poe- taster - an antipathy as inveterate as that which every noble ...
... Song can move the sense . " This sort of delusion is not favourable to the progress of the human un- derstanding . The true poet has an instinctive aversion to the poe- taster - an antipathy as inveterate as that which every noble ...
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... song preside , My footsteps to thy temple guide , To offer at thy turf - built shrine In golden cups , no costly wine , No murder'd firstling of the flock , But flowers , and honey from the rock . " Wharton . Fancy is here called the ...
... song preside , My footsteps to thy temple guide , To offer at thy turf - built shrine In golden cups , no costly wine , No murder'd firstling of the flock , But flowers , and honey from the rock . " Wharton . Fancy is here called the ...
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... songs is not known . The rods of the Egyptian magicians are the first magic wands that are read of . A great number of the prodigies or wonders performed by persons who called themselves magicians were in reality effected by skill in ...
... songs is not known . The rods of the Egyptian magicians are the first magic wands that are read of . A great number of the prodigies or wonders performed by persons who called themselves magicians were in reality effected by skill in ...
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... song of the nightingale , become associated with the feelings of poetic enthusiasm , and they have been the constant theme or subject of poetical description from the first ages of the world . € With Spencer through a fairy grove ...
... song of the nightingale , become associated with the feelings of poetic enthusiasm , and they have been the constant theme or subject of poetical description from the first ages of the world . € With Spencer through a fairy grove ...
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... song . " M goddess by the right hand lead . This whole poem is an undisguised imitation of Milton's Allegro and Pen- seroso - the imitation is so exact as to determine by which hand the goddess should lead him . Milton , however ...
... song . " M goddess by the right hand lead . This whole poem is an undisguised imitation of Milton's Allegro and Pen- seroso - the imitation is so exact as to determine by which hand the goddess should lead him . Milton , however ...
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Adversity Aikin alludes ancient appear armour Bard beautiful blush bound breast breathe caduceus called clouds colours creature crown despair Doctor Johnson dress earth Edward Enfield's Speaker ETON COLLEGE expression fair Fancy fate father feel fury Gales give Glocester Goddess Gorgon grace head heaven Hesiod Homer house of York Hymn imagination imitation Johnson Jove lance laughing wild lines lyre means merates Milton mind morn Muses narch neralize nymphs o'er OVID pain Pandora Paradise Paradise Lost Parnel parody passage passion persons pleasing pleasure Plinlimmon poem poet poetical poetry praise Prometheus pupils purple quaternion queen reign represented rise rock Ross round sense sentence shew smiles solemn song soul sound species stanza stars sublime supposed sweet taste terror thee thing thou tion tyrant vale Venus verse Virtue vols Vulcan wandering fires wave weave winding wings word young readers youth