The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... round stone ; The huge round stone , resulting with a bound , Thunders impetuous down , and smoaks along the ground.15 Who does not perceive the stone to move slowly upward , and roll violently back ? But set the same numbers to another ...
... round stone ; The huge round stone , resulting with a bound , Thunders impetuous down , and smoaks along the ground.15 Who does not perceive the stone to move slowly upward , and roll violently back ? But set the same numbers to another ...
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... round with mouldy damps and ropy slime ) Lets fall a supernumerary horror , And only serves to make thy night more irksome . Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew , Cheerless , unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell Midst skulls and ...
... round with mouldy damps and ropy slime ) Lets fall a supernumerary horror , And only serves to make thy night more irksome . Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew , Cheerless , unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell Midst skulls and ...
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... round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love , The matron's glance that would those looks reprove― These were thy charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession taught even toil to please ; These round ...
... round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love , The matron's glance that would those looks reprove― These were thy charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession taught even toil to please ; These round ...
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