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... spirit - stirring pomp , and much picturesque ceremonial . Italy was then the golden fount , from which the minor urns drew light : and the intercourse of the Norman princes , the universal conquerors , with the finest regions of Europe ...
... spirit - stirring pomp , and much picturesque ceremonial . Italy was then the golden fount , from which the minor urns drew light : and the intercourse of the Norman princes , the universal conquerors , with the finest regions of Europe ...
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... spirit of proud and melancholy romance , cherished by the circumstances , climate , and landscape of their soil . To those influences on the poet's mind may be attribu ted some of the characteristics of his poetry , for in Ireland , and ...
... spirit of proud and melancholy romance , cherished by the circumstances , climate , and landscape of their soil . To those influences on the poet's mind may be attribu ted some of the characteristics of his poetry , for in Ireland , and ...
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... spirits , with long enduring pains , Do toss , that will stun thy feeble brains ; And oftentimes great groans and grievous stounds . When too huge toil and labour them constrains , And oftentimes loud strokes and ringing sounds From ...
... spirits , with long enduring pains , Do toss , that will stun thy feeble brains ; And oftentimes great groans and grievous stounds . When too huge toil and labour them constrains , And oftentimes loud strokes and ringing sounds From ...
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... spirits are attentive : For do but note a wild and wanton herd , Or race of youthful and unhandled colts , Fetching ... spirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted . If music be the food of ...
... spirits are attentive : For do but note a wild and wanton herd , Or race of youthful and unhandled colts , Fetching ... spirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted . If music be the food of ...
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... spirits uphold . FROM " PARADISE LOST . " BOOK III . Hail , holy light , offspring of heaven first born , Or of the eternal , co - eternal beam ! May I express thee unblamed ? Since God is light . And never but in unapproached light ...
... spirits uphold . FROM " PARADISE LOST . " BOOK III . Hail , holy light , offspring of heaven first born , Or of the eternal , co - eternal beam ! May I express thee unblamed ? Since God is light . And never but in unapproached light ...
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