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... seen in a social circle . His time seems to have been given almost entirely to study . History , classical literature , and modern languages were his favorite subjects , although he did not con- fine himself to these alone . By way of ...
... seen in a social circle . His time seems to have been given almost entirely to study . History , classical literature , and modern languages were his favorite subjects , although he did not con- fine himself to these alone . By way of ...
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... seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away , To meet the sun upon the upland lawn ° : " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech , That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high , His listless length at ...
... seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away , To meet the sun upon the upland lawn ° : " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech , That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high , His listless length at ...
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... seen ° Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To ...
... seen ° Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To ...
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... in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : 60 65 70 75 80 This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE 11.
... in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : 60 65 70 75 80 This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE 11.
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... seen to glide , The Genii of the stream : Their scaly armor's Tyrian hue ° Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam . The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish ...
... seen to glide , The Genii of the stream : Their scaly armor's Tyrian hue ° Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam . The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish ...
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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