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... praise ; His highest honors to the heart belong ; His virtues formed the magic of his song . APPRECIATIONS : The great merit of this writer ( Cowper ) appears to us to consist in the boldness and originality of his compositions , and in ...
... praise ; His highest honors to the heart belong ; His virtues formed the magic of his song . APPRECIATIONS : The great merit of this writer ( Cowper ) appears to us to consist in the boldness and originality of his compositions , and in ...
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... fault , If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where through the long - drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise . 40 Can storied urn , or animated bust , Back to 2 GRAY'S POEMS.
... fault , If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where through the long - drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise . 40 Can storied urn , or animated bust , Back to 2 GRAY'S POEMS.
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... praise demands my song , Owen swift , and Owen strong ; Fairest flower of Roderic's stem , o Gwyneth's shield , and Britain's gem . He nor heaps his brooded stores , Nor on all profusely pours ; Lord of every regal art , Liberal hand ...
... praise demands my song , Owen swift , and Owen strong ; Fairest flower of Roderic's stem , o Gwyneth's shield , and Britain's gem . He nor heaps his brooded stores , Nor on all profusely pours ; Lord of every regal art , Liberal hand ...
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... praise to Shakespeare due , For glorious puddings and immortal pies . SONG ° THYRSIS , when we parted , swore Ere the spring he would return Ah ! what means yon violet flower ! And the bud that decks the thorn ! ' Twas the lark that ...
... praise to Shakespeare due , For glorious puddings and immortal pies . SONG ° THYRSIS , when we parted , swore Ere the spring he would return Ah ! what means yon violet flower ! And the bud that decks the thorn ! ' Twas the lark that ...
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... praise , no venial incense flings ; Nor dares with courtly tongue refined 80 Profane thy inborn royalty of mind : She reveres herself and thee . With modest pride to grace thy youthful brow , The laureate wreath , that Cecil wore , she ...
... praise , no venial incense flings ; Nor dares with courtly tongue refined 80 Profane thy inborn royalty of mind : She reveres herself and thee . With modest pride to grace thy youthful brow , The laureate wreath , that Cecil wore , she ...
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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