Late Augustan PoetryPatricia Meyer Spacks |
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... death . In the poem he stresses this cause for grief , adding further immediacy to the situa- tion with the fictional character of Lorenzo , a dissipated young man whom he frequently addresses for didactic purposes . Night - Thoughts ...
... death . In the poem he stresses this cause for grief , adding further immediacy to the situa- tion with the fictional character of Lorenzo , a dissipated young man whom he frequently addresses for didactic purposes . Night - Thoughts ...
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... death prepar'd the blow His vig'rous remedy display'd The power of art without the show . officious : full of good offices . fills affection's eye : i.e. , fills with tears the eyes of those affectionate toward him . 10 100 15 20 25 25 ...
... death prepar'd the blow His vig'rous remedy display'd The power of art without the show . officious : full of good offices . fills affection's eye : i.e. , fills with tears the eyes of those affectionate toward him . 10 100 15 20 25 25 ...
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... death , And death still future . Not an hasty stroke Like that which sends him to the dusty grave , But unrepealable enduring death . Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears ; What none can prove a forg'ry , may be true , What none ...
... death , And death still future . Not an hasty stroke Like that which sends him to the dusty grave , But unrepealable enduring death . Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears ; What none can prove a forg'ry , may be true , What none ...
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Bard beauty beneath Blake bless blest bliss Bloom breast breath Burns Charles Churchill charms chearful Christopher Smart Clouds Collins Cowper death delight earth edition emotional eternal Ev'n ev'ry fair fame Fancy Fate fear fire flowers Gaul grace Gray green Grongar Hill hand Harold Bloom hear heart Heaven Hill human imagination John John Anderson Johnson Joseph Warton King literary London Lord mind moral Muse nature Nature's night Numbers nymphs o'er Oliver Goldsmith Peace Pindaric pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry poor Pow'r praise present text pride rise Robert Burns round satiric scene shade sing sleep Smart smile Song Songs of Experience soul sound Spring sweet tears thee Thomas Warton Thomson thou thought thro toil truth Vale verse virtue voice Warton wave weep wild William Blake William Cowper William Shenstone wind wings youth