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The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of popular ... - Page 253
by William Hone - 1837
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 2

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...spectre- thiu, and dies ! Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs. The voice I hear, this passing night, was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ! The same that oft-times hath Charm 'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn." — p. 108...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats. In Two Parts, Parts 1-2

John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ;. The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ; '- The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on 'the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. • s VIJI....
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The Poetical Works of John Keats: In Two Parts, Parts 1-2

John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. VIII. Forlorn...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayley

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1846 - 332 pages
...wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I heard this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...spectre-thin, and dies! Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs. The voice I hear, this passing night was heard In ancient days...that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home. She stood in tears amid the alien corn 1 The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the sclf-snme song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears...
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Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding

Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...light seed from the feather'd grass ; But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn." Observe the beauties of orators, — Cicero,...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations trend thee down ; The voice I hour this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears nmid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! JVo hungry generations tread thee down : The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charm' d magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.™ § Forlorn...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home. She stood in tears amid the alien corn; Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll...
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