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Page 295
... Sad Acheron of sorrow , black and deep ; Cocytus , named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream ; fierce Phlegethon , Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage . Far off from these a slow and silent stream , a Lethe ...
... Sad Acheron of sorrow , black and deep ; Cocytus , named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream ; fierce Phlegethon , Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage . Far off from these a slow and silent stream , a Lethe ...
Page 308
Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell ; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide , To which the hell I suffer seems a heav'n . O then at last relent : is there no place Left for repentance ...
Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell ; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide , To which the hell I suffer seems a heav'n . O then at last relent : is there no place Left for repentance ...
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And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy ; Deep thought oft seemed to fix his infant eye , Dainties he heeded not , nor gaud , nor toy , Save one short pipe of rudest minstrelsy .
And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy ; Deep thought oft seemed to fix his infant eye , Dainties he heeded not , nor gaud , nor toy , Save one short pipe of rudest minstrelsy .
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
GEORGE CHAPMAN 15601634 | 54 |
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| Title | The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spencer to Crabbe Oxford Paperbacks Volume 1 of The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Oxford library of English poetry |
| Author | Oxford library of English poetry |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192827987, 9780192827982 |
| Length | 659 pages |
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