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... his lines . To this hour Spencer is a spring of English inexhaustible , from which all the leading poets have drawn , and which ja still fresh and sparkling as ever . Panegyric sinks before the name of Shakespeare . * His PREFACE . vii.
... his lines . To this hour Spencer is a spring of English inexhaustible , from which all the leading poets have drawn , and which ja still fresh and sparkling as ever . Panegyric sinks before the name of Shakespeare . * His PREFACE . vii.
Page xiv
... 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 selection from our ...
... 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 selection from our ...
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... WOLFE . The Burial of Sir John Moore Stanzas 381 963 MRS HEMANS . The Hour of Death Mozart's Requiem The Palm Tree The Meeting of the Brothers 385 387 390 393 BEAUTIES OF THE POETS CHAUCER . FROM THE PROLOGUE TO CONTENTS . xxiii.
... WOLFE . The Burial of Sir John Moore Stanzas 381 963 MRS HEMANS . The Hour of Death Mozart's Requiem The Palm Tree The Meeting of the Brothers 385 387 390 393 BEAUTIES OF THE POETS CHAUCER . FROM THE PROLOGUE TO CONTENTS . xxiii.
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... hour of death is come , let none ask whence nor why " The longer life , I wot the greater sin ; The greater sin , the greater punishment : All those great battles which thou boasts to win , Through strife , and blood - shed , and ...
... hour of death is come , let none ask whence nor why " The longer life , I wot the greater sin ; The greater sin , the greater punishment : All those great battles which thou boasts to win , Through strife , and blood - shed , and ...
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... hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sere , the yellow leaf : And that which should ...
... hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sere , the yellow leaf : And that which should ...
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