A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of Enjoyment, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1849 - Anthologies |
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... look upon the reforming knight as a dull and meddling fellow . Why should he wake us from such a pleasant dream ? On reflection , however , we see that the fault is not his , but our own ; that we should wake up in a far worse manner ...
... look upon the reforming knight as a dull and meddling fellow . Why should he wake us from such a pleasant dream ? On reflection , however , we see that the fault is not his , but our own ; that we should wake up in a far worse manner ...
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... Castle's shame ; whence , from his filthy nook , We drove the villain out , for fitter lair to look . * Supposed to be Armstrong . One day there chaunc'd into these hills to rove A 20 THE ENCHANTMENTS OF THE WIZARD INDOLENCE ,
... Castle's shame ; whence , from his filthy nook , We drove the villain out , for fitter lair to look . * Supposed to be Armstrong . One day there chaunc'd into these hills to rove A 20 THE ENCHANTMENTS OF THE WIZARD INDOLENCE ,
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... look'd , perdie , as if they deeply thought , And on their brow sat every nation's cares . The world by them is parcel'd out in shares . When in the Hall of Smoke they congress hold , And the sage berry sun - burnt Mocha bears Has clear ...
... look'd , perdie , as if they deeply thought , And on their brow sat every nation's cares . The world by them is parcel'd out in shares . When in the Hall of Smoke they congress hold , And the sage berry sun - burnt Mocha bears Has clear ...
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... look , As if on time's last verge this frame of things had shook . Soon as the short - liv'd tempest was yspent , Steam'd from the jaws of vext Avernus ' hole , And hush'd the hubbub of the rabblement , Sir Industry the first calm ...
... look , As if on time's last verge this frame of things had shook . Soon as the short - liv'd tempest was yspent , Steam'd from the jaws of vext Avernus ' hole , And hush'd the hubbub of the rabblement , Sir Industry the first calm ...
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... looks with pale dismay were stain'd , And spreading wide their hands , they meek repentance feign'd . But , ah ! their scornèd day of grace was past ; For ( horrible to tell ) a desert wild Before them stretch'd , bare , comfortless ...
... looks with pale dismay were stain'd , And spreading wide their hands , they meek repentance feign'd . But , ah ! their scornèd day of grace was past ; For ( horrible to tell ) a desert wild Before them stretch'd , bare , comfortless ...
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