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... praise , And pluck each other's laurel . A man renowned for repartee Will seldom scruple to make free With friendship's finest feeling ; Will thrust a dagger at your breast , And tell you , ' twas a special jest , By way of balm for ...
... praise , And pluck each other's laurel . A man renowned for repartee Will seldom scruple to make free With friendship's finest feeling ; Will thrust a dagger at your breast , And tell you , ' twas a special jest , By way of balm for ...
Page 121
... praise to the mere poet's song ; Who many a noble gift from Heaven possessed , And faith at last , alone worth all the rest . O man , immortal by a double prize , By fame on earth , by glory in the skies ! 5 10 THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS ...
... praise to the mere poet's song ; Who many a noble gift from Heaven possessed , And faith at last , alone worth all the rest . O man , immortal by a double prize , By fame on earth , by glory in the skies ! 5 10 THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS ...
Page 129
... praise harmonious the first air he drew . He was excused the penalties of dull Minority . No tutor charged his hand . With the thought - tracing quill , or tasked his mind With problems . History , not wanted yet , K Leaned on her elbow ...
... praise harmonious the first air he drew . He was excused the penalties of dull Minority . No tutor charged his hand . With the thought - tracing quill , or tasked his mind With problems . History , not wanted yet , K Leaned on her elbow ...
Page 139
... praise : 70 The dearth of information and good sense That it foretells us always comes to pass . Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page , In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While ...
... praise : 70 The dearth of information and good sense That it foretells us always comes to pass . Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page , In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While ...
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... praise A jarring note . Themes of a graver , tone , Exciting oft our gratitude and love , While we retrace with memory's pointing wand , That calls the past to our exact review , 180 The dangers we have escaped , the broken snare , 185 ...
... praise A jarring note . Themes of a graver , tone , Exciting oft our gratitude and love , While we retrace with memory's pointing wand , That calls the past to our exact review , 180 The dangers we have escaped , the broken snare , 185 ...
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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