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Page 156
... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unsuspicious nights , And slumbers unalarmed . Now , ere you sleep , See that your polished arms be primed with care , And drop the night - bolt ; ruffians ...
... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unsuspicious nights , And slumbers unalarmed . Now , ere you sleep , See that your polished arms be primed with care , And drop the night - bolt ; ruffians ...
Page 161
... wonder , and admiring still , And still admiring , with regret supposed The joy half lost , because not sooner found . There , too , enamored of the life I loved , Pathetic in its praise , in its pursuit Determined and possessing it at ...
... wonder , and admiring still , And still admiring , with regret supposed The joy half lost , because not sooner found . There , too , enamored of the life I loved , Pathetic in its praise , in its pursuit Determined and possessing it at ...
Page 169
... wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which fancy seeks in vain The likeness of some object seen before . Thus Nature works as if to mock at Art , And in defiance of her rival powers ; By these fortuitous and random strokes ...
... wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which fancy seeks in vain The likeness of some object seen before . Thus Nature works as if to mock at Art , And in defiance of her rival powers ; By these fortuitous and random strokes ...
Page 189
... wonder ; humanizing what is brute In the lost kind , extracting from the lips Of asps their venom , overpowering strength By weakness , and hostility by love . 695 700 705 710 Patriots have toiled , and in their country's cause Bled ...
... wonder ; humanizing what is brute In the lost kind , extracting from the lips Of asps their venom , overpowering strength By weakness , and hostility by love . 695 700 705 710 Patriots have toiled , and in their country's cause Bled ...
Page 245
... wonder that my intimate ac- quaintance with these specimens of the kind , has taught me to hold the sportsman's amusement in abhorrence : he little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes , of what grati- tude they are capable , how ...
... wonder that my intimate ac- quaintance with these specimens of the kind , has taught me to hold the sportsman's amusement in abhorrence : he little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes , of what grati- tude they are capable , how ...
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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