The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to BayleySamuel Carter Hall H. G. Bohn, 1846 - English poetry |
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... gone far in enabling him to discharge it adequately , he can have but little apprehension of the result . With scarcely an exception , he has been favoured by the living Poets with memoranda for his brief biogra- phies ; and with most ...
... gone far in enabling him to discharge it adequately , he can have but little apprehension of the result . With scarcely an exception , he has been favoured by the living Poets with memoranda for his brief biogra- phies ; and with most ...
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... gone a little too far ; and they , on the other hand , have grown complimentary meanwhile , he waited patiently for the turn of the tide that was to bear him into a crowd of devoted admirers . He knew it would come at last ; and went on ...
... gone a little too far ; and they , on the other hand , have grown complimentary meanwhile , he waited patiently for the turn of the tide that was to bear him into a crowd of devoted admirers . He knew it would come at last ; and went on ...
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... gone : The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now , the glory and the dream ? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The soul that rises with us , our life's star Hath had ...
... gone : The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now , the glory and the dream ? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The soul that rises with us , our life's star Hath had ...
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... gone by , - The dread of vanish'd shadows . Are they so ? Is not the past all shadow ? -What are they ? Creations of the mind ? The mind can make Substance , and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been , and give A ...
... gone by , - The dread of vanish'd shadows . Are they so ? Is not the past all shadow ? -What are they ? Creations of the mind ? The mind can make Substance , and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been , and give A ...
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... gone , Or were at war with him ! he was a mark For blight and desolation , -compass'd round With hatred and contention : pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him , until , Like to the Pontic monarch of old days , He fed on ...
... gone , Or were at war with him ! he was a mark For blight and desolation , -compass'd round With hatred and contention : pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him , until , Like to the Pontic monarch of old days , He fed on ...
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