The Poetical Works: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorM. & W. Ward, 1811 - 72 pages |
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... fancy flies , Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies . Methinks her patient sons before me stand , Where the broad ocean leans against the land . And , sedulous to stop the coming tide , Lift the tall rampier's artificial pride ...
... fancy flies , Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies . Methinks her patient sons before me stand , Where the broad ocean leans against the land . And , sedulous to stop the coming tide , Lift the tall rampier's artificial pride ...
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... only with the learned tongues but with the Italian , French , and Spanish languages . He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction , and subjects * of fancy ; and , by indulging some peculiar 6 LIFE OF W. COLLINS .
... only with the learned tongues but with the Italian , French , and Spanish languages . He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction , and subjects * of fancy ; and , by indulging some peculiar 6 LIFE OF W. COLLINS .
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... fancy ; and , by indulging some peculiar habits of thought , was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature , and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular ...
... fancy ; and , by indulging some peculiar habits of thought , was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature , and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular ...
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... Fancy's aid , E'en now my thoughts , relenting maid , Thy temple's pride design : Its southern site , its truth complete , Shall raise a wild enthusiast heat In all who view the shrine . There Picture's toils shall well relate , How ...
... Fancy's aid , E'en now my thoughts , relenting maid , Thy temple's pride design : Its southern site , its truth complete , Shall raise a wild enthusiast heat In all who view the shrine . There Picture's toils shall well relate , How ...
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... Fancy , loveliest child , Thy babe , or Pleasure's , nurs'd the powers of song ! Thou , who , with hermit heart , Disdain'st the wealth of art , And gauds , and pageant weeds , and training pall ; But com'st , a decent maid , In attic ...
... Fancy , loveliest child , Thy babe , or Pleasure's , nurs'd the powers of song ! Thou , who , with hermit heart , Disdain'st the wealth of art , And gauds , and pageant weeds , and training pall ; But com'st , a decent maid , In attic ...
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