The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... thou gone ? Where hast thou hid thy many - spangled head , And the majestic menace of thine eyes , Felt from afar ? Pliant and powerless now ; Like new - born infant wound up in his swathes , Or victim tumbled flat upon its back , That ...
... thou gone ? Where hast thou hid thy many - spangled head , And the majestic menace of thine eyes , Felt from afar ? Pliant and powerless now ; Like new - born infant wound up in his swathes , Or victim tumbled flat upon its back , That ...
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... thou , thou rich - haired Youth of Morn , And all thy subject life was born ! The dangerous Passions kept aloof , Far from the sainted growing woof , But near it sate ecstatic Wonder , Listening the deep applauding thunder , And Truth ...
... thou , thou rich - haired Youth of Morn , And all thy subject life was born ! The dangerous Passions kept aloof , Far from the sainted growing woof , But near it sate ecstatic Wonder , Listening the deep applauding thunder , And Truth ...
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... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . Alas ! it's no thy neibor sweet , The bonnie lark , companion meet , Bending thee ' mang the ...
... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . Alas ! it's no thy neibor sweet , The bonnie lark , companion meet , Bending thee ' mang the ...
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