The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... Rise in the grove , before the altar rise , Stain all my soul , and wanton in my eyes . I waste the matin lamp in sighs for thee , Thy image steals between my God and me , Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear , With ev'ry bead I drop ...
... Rise in the grove , before the altar rise , Stain all my soul , and wanton in my eyes . I waste the matin lamp in sighs for thee , Thy image steals between my God and me , Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear , With ev'ry bead I drop ...
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... rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning , or his end ? Alas what wonder ! Man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is ...
... rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning , or his end ? Alas what wonder ! Man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is ...
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... rise , The shapeless rock , or hanging precipice . Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend , And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend . ( ll . 156-60 ) A quarter of a century earlier , Dennis , crossing the Alps , called ...
... rise , The shapeless rock , or hanging precipice . Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend , And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend . ( ll . 156-60 ) A quarter of a century earlier , Dennis , crossing the Alps , called ...
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