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Page 99
Now could I , Casca , name to thee a man Most like this dreadful night , That thunders , lightens , opens graves , and roars As doth the lion in the Capitol , A man no mightier than thyself or me In personal action , yet prodigious ...
Now could I , Casca , name to thee a man Most like this dreadful night , That thunders , lightens , opens graves , and roars As doth the lion in the Capitol , A man no mightier than thyself or me In personal action , yet prodigious ...
Page 156
... and boresprit , would I flame distinctly , Thenmeet , and join : Jove's lightnings , the precursors O'the dreadful thunder - claps , more momentary And sight - outrunning were not : the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring the most ...
... and boresprit , would I flame distinctly , Thenmeet , and join : Jove's lightnings , the precursors O'the dreadful thunder - claps , more momentary And sight - outrunning were not : the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring the most ...
Page 494
A constant vapour o'er the palace flies ; Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise ; Dreadful , as hermits ' dreams in haunted shades , Or bright , as visions of expiring maids . Now glaring fiends , and snakes on rolling spires ...
A constant vapour o'er the palace flies ; Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise ; Dreadful , as hermits ' dreams in haunted shades , Or bright , as visions of expiring maids . Now glaring fiends , and snakes on rolling spires ...
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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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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