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Page 177
CVII Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come , Can yet the lease of my true love control , Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom . The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd , And the sad ...
CVII Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come , Can yet the lease of my true love control , Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom . The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd , And the sad ...
Page 312
Thus was this place , A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm , Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind Hung amiable , Hesperian fables true , If true , here only , and of delicious ...
Thus was this place , A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm , Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind Hung amiable , Hesperian fables true , If true , here only , and of delicious ...
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see , Thinks what ne'er was , nor is , nor e'er shall be , In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just , the conduct true , Applause ...
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see , Thinks what ne'er was , nor is , nor e'er shall be , In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just , the conduct true , Applause ...
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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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