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... darker passions , and its sullen and angry views of human life . But the error was often nobly redeemed by the outbreak of a noble mind , by touches of the finest feeling ; flashes of sunshine through the gloom ; vistas of the rosiest ...
... darker passions , and its sullen and angry views of human life . But the error was often nobly redeemed by the outbreak of a noble mind , by touches of the finest feeling ; flashes of sunshine through the gloom ; vistas of the rosiest ...
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... darkness , in the hour when it might have begun to fulfil its course , and , freed from the mists and obliquities of its rising , run its high career among the enlighteners of mankind . The object of this volume is to give such a ...
... darkness , in the hour when it might have begun to fulfil its course , and , freed from the mists and obliquities of its rising , run its high career among the enlighteners of mankind . The object of this volume is to give such a ...
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... 331 Drachenfels 333 An Alpine Storm 335 Farewell to England 336 An Italian Sunset 338 The Ocean 339 Modern Greece 340 Solitude To Inez Remorse Darkness 341 342 344 346 BYRON . Seunacherib ยท The East Lyric Verses KEATS . xxii CONTENTS .
... 331 Drachenfels 333 An Alpine Storm 335 Farewell to England 336 An Italian Sunset 338 The Ocean 339 Modern Greece 340 Solitude To Inez Remorse Darkness 341 342 344 346 BYRON . Seunacherib ยท The East Lyric Verses KEATS . xxii CONTENTS .
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... Dark , doleful , dreary , like a greedy grave , That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl , Shrieking his baleful note , which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl ; And all ...
... Dark , doleful , dreary , like a greedy grave , That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl , Shrieking his baleful note , which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl ; And all ...
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... darkness , that none could behold The hue thereof : for view of cheerful day Did never in that house itself display , But a faint shadow of uncertain light ; Such as a lamp whose life doth fade away ; Or as the moon , clothed with ...
... darkness , that none could behold The hue thereof : for view of cheerful day Did never in that house itself display , But a faint shadow of uncertain light ; Such as a lamp whose life doth fade away ; Or as the moon , clothed with ...
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