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... That do this habitation , where thou keep'st , Hourly afflict : merely , thou art
Death's fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun , Yet run'st toward him still
: thou art by no means valiant , For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a
poor ...
... That do this habitation , where thou keep'st , Hourly afflict : merely , thou art
Death's fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun , Yet run'st toward him still
: thou art by no means valiant , For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a
poor ...
Page 32
Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player , That struts and frets his hour upon
And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury ,
Signifying nothing . the stage , I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen
into ...
Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player , That struts and frets his hour upon
And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury ,
Signifying nothing . the stage , I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen
into ...
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Compared with this , how poor religion's pride , In all the pomp of method and of
art , When men display to congregations wide , Devotion's every grace , except
the heart ! The Power , incensed , the pageant will desert , The pompous train ,
the ...
Compared with this , how poor religion's pride , In all the pomp of method and of
art , When men display to congregations wide , Devotion's every grace , except
the heart ! The Power , incensed , the pageant will desert , The pompous train ,
the ...
Page 235
... to be such , and to their slumbers peace ! But of the poor man ask , the abject
poor ; Go , and demand of him , if there be here , In this cold abstinence from evil
deeds , And these inevitable charities , Wherewith to satisfy the human soul ?
... to be such , and to their slumbers peace ! But of the poor man ask , the abject
poor ; Go , and demand of him , if there be here , In this cold abstinence from evil
deeds , And these inevitable charities , Wherewith to satisfy the human soul ?
Page 244
A wandering Harper , scorned and poor , He begged his bread from door to door
; And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The harp , a king had loved to hear . He
passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower ...
A wandering Harper , scorned and poor , He begged his bread from door to door
; And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The harp , a king had loved to hear . He
passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower ...
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| Title | The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations |
| Author | George Croly |
| Editor | George Croly |
| Publisher | R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside ; and sold by L.B. Seeley and Sons, 1828 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 4 Feb 2015 |
| Length | 367 pages |
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