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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... None so divine as melancholy . I'll change my state with any wretch Thou canst from jail or dunghill fetch . My pain past cure ; another hell ; I may not in this torment dwell ; Now , desperate , I hate my life : Lend 12 ROBERT BURTON .
... None so divine as melancholy . I'll change my state with any wretch Thou canst from jail or dunghill fetch . My pain past cure ; another hell ; I may not in this torment dwell ; Now , desperate , I hate my life : Lend 12 ROBERT BURTON .
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... thou who went'st along in all my way To where the Morning with perfumed wings From the high mountains of Panchæa springs ; To that new - found - out world , where sober Night Takes from th ' Antipodes her silent flight ; To those dark ...
... thou who went'st along in all my way To where the Morning with perfumed wings From the high mountains of Panchæa springs ; To that new - found - out world , where sober Night Takes from th ' Antipodes her silent flight ; To those dark ...
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... thou preserv'd'st my life . * * * Thou sav'd'st me from the bloody massacres Of faithless Indians , from their treacherous wars , From raging fevers , from the sultry breath Of tainted air , which cloy'd the jaws of death . Preserv'd ...
... thou preserv'd'st my life . * * * Thou sav'd'st me from the bloody massacres Of faithless Indians , from their treacherous wars , From raging fevers , from the sultry breath Of tainted air , which cloy'd the jaws of death . Preserv'd ...
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... cruel , or be no way 5 kind ! " that . " 2 ❝ an . " 3 So ed . 1616.-Ed. 1607 and 1637 , " me th ' other . " 466 altogether . " 5 ❝ all . " But whilst I live , believe , thou canst not WM . ALEXANDER , EARL OF STERLINE . 35.
... cruel , or be no way 5 kind ! " that . " 2 ❝ an . " 3 So ed . 1616.-Ed. 1607 and 1637 , " me th ' other . " 466 altogether . " 5 ❝ all . " But whilst I live , believe , thou canst not WM . ALEXANDER , EARL OF STERLINE . 35.
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... thou canst not die- O ! e'en in spite of death , yet still my choice ! Oft , with the inward all - beholding 3 eye I ... thou didst haunt , yet I adore the ground ! And where thou stept - O sacred seems that place ! My solitary walks ...
... thou canst not die- O ! e'en in spite of death , yet still my choice ! Oft , with the inward all - beholding 3 eye I ... thou didst haunt , yet I adore the ground ! And where thou stept - O sacred seems that place ! My solitary walks ...
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