The Poetical Works: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorM. & W. Ward, 1811 - 72 pages |
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... heard of late in favor of blank verse , and Pindaric odes , chorusses , anapests and iambics , allite rative care and happy negligence ! Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it ; and as he is gener- ally much in the wrong , so ...
... heard of late in favor of blank verse , and Pindaric odes , chorusses , anapests and iambics , allite rative care and happy negligence ! Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it ; and as he is gener- ally much in the wrong , so ...
Page 68
... heard a hissing - there are serpents here ! O , there the people are - best keep my distance ; Our Captain ( gentle natives ) craves assistance ; Our ship's well stor'd - in yonder creek we've laid her ; His honor is no mercenary trader ...
... heard a hissing - there are serpents here ! O , there the people are - best keep my distance ; Our Captain ( gentle natives ) craves assistance ; Our ship's well stor'd - in yonder creek we've laid her ; His honor is no mercenary trader ...
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... heard him speak with great kindness of Leo the Tenth , and with keen resentment of his tasteless successor . But pro- bably not a page of his history was ever writen . He planned several tragedies , but he only planned them . He wrote ...
... heard him speak with great kindness of Leo the Tenth , and with keen resentment of his tasteless successor . But pro- bably not a page of his history was ever writen . He planned several tragedies , but he only planned them . He wrote ...
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... heard her song ; And sought the vales and echoing groves among ; At length he found , and woo'd the rural maid ; She knew the monarch , and with fear obey'd . " Be every youth like royal Abbas mov'd ; " And every Georgian maid like Abra ...
... heard her song ; And sought the vales and echoing groves among ; At length he found , and woo'd the rural maid ; She knew the monarch , and with fear obey'd . " Be every youth like royal Abbas mov'd ; " And every Georgian maid like Abra ...
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... heard A shriller shriek ; and nearer fires appear'd : The affrighted shepherds , through the dews of night , Wide o'er the moonlight hills renew'd their flight . ODES . ODE TO PITY . THOU , the friend 20 ORIENTAL ECLOGUES .
... heard A shriller shriek ; and nearer fires appear'd : The affrighted shepherds , through the dews of night , Wide o'er the moonlight hills renew'd their flight . ODES . ODE TO PITY . THOU , the friend 20 ORIENTAL ECLOGUES .
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