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Page 113
... hope of permanent delight ; The secret just committed , They drop through mere desire to prate , Forgetting its important weight , And by themselves outwitted . How bright soe'er the prospect seems , All thoughts of friendship are but ...
... hope of permanent delight ; The secret just committed , They drop through mere desire to prate , Forgetting its important weight , And by themselves outwitted . How bright soe'er the prospect seems , All thoughts of friendship are but ...
Page 115
... hope At one huge stride to reach the top Of an erected ladder . Courtier and patriot cannot , mix Their heterogeneous politics Without an effervescence , Such as of salts with lemon juice But which is rarely known to induce , Like that ...
... hope At one huge stride to reach the top Of an erected ladder . Courtier and patriot cannot , mix Their heterogeneous politics Without an effervescence , Such as of salts with lemon juice But which is rarely known to induce , Like that ...
Page 116
... hope of thriving . Then judge , or ere you choose your man As circumspectly as you can , And , having made election , See that no disrespect of yours , Such as a friend but ill endures , Enfeeble his affection . It is not timber , lead ...
... hope of thriving . Then judge , or ere you choose your man As circumspectly as you can , And , having made election , See that no disrespect of yours , Such as a friend but ill endures , Enfeeble his affection . It is not timber , lead ...
Page 120
... hope The voice of true Wisdom inspires ; ' Tis sufficient , if Peace be the scope , And the summit of all our desires . Peace may be the lot of the mind That seeks in it meekness and love ; But rapture and bliss are confined To the ...
... hope The voice of true Wisdom inspires ; ' Tis sufficient , if Peace be the scope , And the summit of all our desires . Peace may be the lot of the mind That seeks in it meekness and love ; But rapture and bliss are confined To the ...
Page 133
... hope , of all bereft , His floating home forever left . No braver chief could Albion boast Than he , with whom he went , Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent . He loved them both , but both in vain , Nor him beheld ...
... hope , of all bereft , His floating home forever left . No braver chief could Albion boast Than he , with whom he went , Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent . He loved them both , but both in vain , Nor him beheld ...
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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