Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best Poets in the English Language, a Copious Selection of Elegant Extracts, a Short Analysis of Hebrew Poetry, and Translations from the Sacred Poets: Designed to Illustrate the Principles of Rhetoric, and Teach Their Application to Poetry |
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... rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge , And in the visitation of the winds , Who take the ruffian billows by the tops , Curling their monstrous heads , and hanging them With deaf'ning clamors in the slipp'ry shrouds ...
... rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge , And in the visitation of the winds , Who take the ruffian billows by the tops , Curling their monstrous heads , and hanging them With deaf'ning clamors in the slipp'ry shrouds ...
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... rock only ; his omnipresence fills Land , sea , and air , and every kind that lives , Fomented by his virtual pow'r and warm'd ; All th ' earth he gave thee to possess and rule , No despicable gift ; surmise not then His presence to ...
... rock only ; his omnipresence fills Land , sea , and air , and every kind that lives , Fomented by his virtual pow'r and warm'd ; All th ' earth he gave thee to possess and rule , No despicable gift ; surmise not then His presence to ...
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... rocks for us did frame A temple , where to sound his name . Oh ! let our voice his praise exalt , Till it arrive at Heaven's high vault : Which , thence ( perhaps ) rebounding , may , Echo beyond the Mexique Bay . Thus sung they , in ...
... rocks for us did frame A temple , where to sound his name . Oh ! let our voice his praise exalt , Till it arrive at Heaven's high vault : Which , thence ( perhaps ) rebounding , may , Echo beyond the Mexique Bay . Thus sung they , in ...
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... rock of adamant we build Our inountain - hopes , spin out eternal schemes , As we the Fatal Sisters could outspin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n Philander had bespoke his shroud ; Nor had he cause ; a warning was ...
... rock of adamant we build Our inountain - hopes , spin out eternal schemes , As we the Fatal Sisters could outspin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n Philander had bespoke his shroud ; Nor had he cause ; a warning was ...
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... rock , the mountain's misty top , Swell on the sight , and brighten with the dawn . Blue , through the dusk , the smoking currents shine And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps , awkward : while along the forest - glade The ...
... rock , the mountain's misty top , Swell on the sight , and brighten with the dawn . Blue , through the dusk , the smoking currents shine And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps , awkward : while along the forest - glade The ...
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