Specimens of the Early English Poets,: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language;Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row., 1811 - English poetry |
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... sense , Condemn what is our excellence . The air , immortal souls , the skies , The angels in their hierarchies , Unseen , to all things seen dispense Breath , life , protection , influence . Our high conceptions crave a mind From earth ...
... sense , Condemn what is our excellence . The air , immortal souls , the skies , The angels in their hierarchies , Unseen , to all things seen dispense Breath , life , protection , influence . Our high conceptions crave a mind From earth ...
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... ? " These eyes again thine eyes shall see , " And hands again these hands infold ; " And all chaste pleasures can be told " Shall with us everlasting be . " For if no use of sense remain " When EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY . 45.
... ? " These eyes again thine eyes shall see , " And hands again these hands infold ; " And all chaste pleasures can be told " Shall with us everlasting be . " For if no use of sense remain " When EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY . 45.
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... sense remain " When bodies once this life forsake , " Or they could no delight partake , " Why should they ever rise again ? * * * * * " Let then no doubt , Celinda , touch , " Much less your fairest mind invade : " Were not our souls ...
... sense remain " When bodies once this life forsake , " Or they could no delight partake , " Why should they ever rise again ? * * * * * " Let then no doubt , Celinda , touch , " Much less your fairest mind invade : " Were not our souls ...
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... sense in sin that lowers . What soul can be so sick , which by thy songs . Attir'd in sweetness sweetly is not driven Quite to forget earth's turmoils , spites , and wrongs , And lift a reverend eye and thought to heaven ? Sweet artless ...
... sense in sin that lowers . What soul can be so sick , which by thy songs . Attir'd in sweetness sweetly is not driven Quite to forget earth's turmoils , spites , and wrongs , And lift a reverend eye and thought to heaven ? Sweet artless ...
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... sense and ardent party zeal , began , necessarily from the subject , to degenerate in their style and tone , and to lose that playful fancy , pure taste , and artless delicacy of sentiment , which distinguish the poetry of his early ...
... sense and ardent party zeal , began , necessarily from the subject , to degenerate in their style and tone , and to lose that playful fancy , pure taste , and artless delicacy of sentiment , which distinguish the poetry of his early ...
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