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... pleasures of general society , which he must have been eminently capable of enjoying - and from authorship , a still severer sacrifice , -while he was yet in the prime of years , and gave himself up to the quiet obscurity of the country ...
... pleasures of general society , which he must have been eminently capable of enjoying - and from authorship , a still severer sacrifice , -while he was yet in the prime of years , and gave himself up to the quiet obscurity of the country ...
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George Croly. PAGE . AKENSIDE . For a Statue of Chaucer · 122 Mournful Pleasures 123 Pleasures of Imagination 124 For a Monument at Runnymeade 125 For a Statue of Shakespeare 126 COLLINS . The Passions Epitaph Ode to Evening Dirge in ...
George Croly. PAGE . AKENSIDE . For a Statue of Chaucer · 122 Mournful Pleasures 123 Pleasures of Imagination 124 For a Monument at Runnymeade 125 For a Statue of Shakespeare 126 COLLINS . The Passions Epitaph Ode to Evening Dirge in ...
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... pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come in spite of sorrow , And at my window bid good morrow , Through ...
... pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come in spite of sorrow , And at my window bid good morrow , Through ...
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... pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns , and fallows gray , Where the nibbling flocks do stray , Mountains on whose barren breast , The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied , Shallow ...
... pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns , and fallows gray , Where the nibbling flocks do stray , Mountains on whose barren breast , The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied , Shallow ...
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... pleasure ; But first and chiefest with thee bring , Him that yon soars on golden wing , Guiding the fiery - wheeled throne , The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute silence hist along , ' Less Philomel will deign a song . In her ...
... pleasure ; But first and chiefest with thee bring , Him that yon soars on golden wing , Guiding the fiery - wheeled throne , The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute silence hist along , ' Less Philomel will deign a song . In her ...
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