Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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Page 83
... lights " which , after travelling for centuries through the wide and boundless dominions of air , revisit the earth for an instant , and again disappear ; unlike in this , that the certain reappearance of genius can neither be ...
... lights " which , after travelling for centuries through the wide and boundless dominions of air , revisit the earth for an instant , and again disappear ; unlike in this , that the certain reappearance of genius can neither be ...
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... light , And darted fyrie beames out of the same , So passing persant , and so wondrous bright , That quite bereav'd the rash beholders sight : In them the blinded god his lustfull fyre To kindle oft assayd , but had no might ; For ...
... light , And darted fyrie beames out of the same , So passing persant , and so wondrous bright , That quite bereav'd the rash beholders sight : In them the blinded god his lustfull fyre To kindle oft assayd , but had no might ; For ...
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... light licentious toyes . And all that while right over him she hong With her false eyes fast fixed in his sight , As seeking medicine whence she was stong , Or greedily depasturing delight ; And oft inclining downe with kisses light ...
... light licentious toyes . And all that while right over him she hong With her false eyes fast fixed in his sight , As seeking medicine whence she was stong , Or greedily depasturing delight ; And oft inclining downe with kisses light ...
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... light , Which , sparckling on the silent waves , does seeme more bright . FLORIMEL AND THE WITCH'S SON . THROUGH th ' tops of the high trees she did descry A little smoke , whose vapour thin and light Reeking aloft uprolled to the sky ...
... light , Which , sparckling on the silent waves , does seeme more bright . FLORIMEL AND THE WITCH'S SON . THROUGH th ' tops of the high trees she did descry A little smoke , whose vapour thin and light Reeking aloft uprolled to the sky ...
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... light , That by his gate might easily appeare ; For still he far'd as dauncing in delight , And in his hand a windy fan did beare , That in the ydle ayre he mov'd still here and theare . And him beside marcht amorous Desyre , Who seemd ...
... light , That by his gate might easily appeare ; For still he far'd as dauncing in delight , And in his hand a windy fan did beare , That in the ydle ayre he mov'd still here and theare . And him beside marcht amorous Desyre , Who seemd ...
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