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... Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery ( all he had ) a tear , 120 He gained from heaven ( ' twas all he wished ) a friend . No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode ...
... Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery ( all he had ) a tear , 120 He gained from heaven ( ' twas all he wished ) a friend . No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode ...
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... heaven . What terrors round him wait ° ! Amazement in his van , with flight combined , And sorrow's faded form , and solitude behind . II . 2 " Mighty victor , mighty lord ! 60 Low on his funeral couch he lies . No pitying heart , no ...
... heaven . What terrors round him wait ° ! Amazement in his van , with flight combined , And sorrow's faded form , and solitude behind . II . 2 " Mighty victor , mighty lord ! 60 Low on his funeral couch he lies . No pitying heart , no ...
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... heaven her many - colored wings . III . 3 " The verse adorn again 125 Fierce war , and faithful love , o And truth severe , by fairy fiction drest . In buskined measures move Pale grief , and pleasing pain , With horror , tyrant of the ...
... heaven her many - colored wings . III . 3 " The verse adorn again 125 Fierce war , and faithful love , o And truth severe , by fairy fiction drest . In buskined measures move Pale grief , and pleasing pain , With horror , tyrant of the ...
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... heaven ! Unwilling I my lips unclose : Leave me , leave me to repose . ODIN Once again my call obey , Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child await , Who the author of his fate ? PROPHETESS In Hoder's hand the hero's ...
... heaven ! Unwilling I my lips unclose : Leave me , leave me to repose . ODIN Once again my call obey , Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child await , Who the author of his fate ? PROPHETESS In Hoder's hand the hero's ...
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... heaven Had armed with spirit , wit , and satire ; But Cobhamo had the polish given , And tipped her arrows with good - nature . To celebrate her eyes , her air - Coarse panegyrics would but tease her ; Melissa is her " nom de guerre ...
... heaven Had armed with spirit , wit , and satire ; But Cobhamo had the polish given , And tipped her arrows with good - nature . To celebrate her eyes , her air - Coarse panegyrics would but tease her ; Melissa is her " nom de guerre ...
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote