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... hope in it myself . " In 1752 Cowper took chambers in the Inner Temple . By this step he presumably became a regular student of law , although his advancement was no more rapid now than before . While he no longer passed his time in ...
... hope in it myself . " In 1752 Cowper took chambers in the Inner Temple . By this step he presumably became a regular student of law , although his advancement was no more rapid now than before . While he no longer passed his time in ...
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... hope repose , ) The bosom of his Father and his God . 125 ODE ON THE SPRING ° Lo ! where the rosy - bosomed Hours , ° Fair Venus ' train , appear , Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! The Attic warbler ...
... hope repose , ) The bosom of his Father and his God . 125 ODE ON THE SPRING ° Lo ! where the rosy - bosomed Hours , ° Fair Venus ' train , appear , Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! The Attic warbler ...
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... hope is theirs by fancy fed , Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed , The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit , invention ever new , And lively cheer , of vigor born ; The ...
... hope is theirs by fancy fed , Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed , The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit , invention ever new , And lively cheer , of vigor born ; The ...
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... hope they burn : But none from Cattraeth's vale return , Save Aëron brave , and Conan strong , ( Bursting through the bloody throng ) And I , the meanest of them all , That live to weep and sing their fall . 20 CARADOC HAVE ye seen the ...
... hope they burn : But none from Cattraeth's vale return , Save Aëron brave , and Conan strong , ( Bursting through the bloody throng ) And I , the meanest of them all , That live to weep and sing their fall . 20 CARADOC HAVE ye seen the ...
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... hope prolongs our happier hour , Or deepest shades , that dimly lower And blacken round our weary way , Gilds with a gleam of distant day . Still , where rosy pleasure leads , See a kindred grief pursue ; Behind the steps that misery ...
... hope prolongs our happier hour , Or deepest shades , that dimly lower And blacken round our weary way , Gilds with a gleam of distant day . Still , where rosy pleasure leads , See a kindred grief pursue ; Behind the steps that misery ...
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar 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