The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... HEAR , Britain , hear a rough unpractis'd tongue , Though rough my voice , the Muse inspires the song ! The heaven - born Muse ; ev'n now she springs her flight , [ of light . And bears my raptur'd soul through untrac'd realms We mount ...
... HEAR , Britain , hear a rough unpractis'd tongue , Though rough my voice , the Muse inspires the song ! The heaven - born Muse ; ev'n now she springs her flight , [ of light . And bears my raptur'd soul through untrac'd realms We mount ...
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... hear ! " At Thisbe's name he lifts his dying eyes , And , having seen her , clos'd them up , and dies . But when she knew the bloody veil , and spy'd The ivory scabbard empty by his side , 66 Ah , wretched youth , " said she , " by love ...
... hear ! " At Thisbe's name he lifts his dying eyes , And , having seen her , clos'd them up , and dies . But when she knew the bloody veil , and spy'd The ivory scabbard empty by his side , 66 Ah , wretched youth , " said she , " by love ...
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... hear how I'll the cause decide . " Deep in a venerable wood 1 Where oaks , with vocal skill endued , Did wondrous oracles of old impart , Beneath a little hill's inclining side , A grotto's seen where Nature's art Is exercis'd in all ...
... hear how I'll the cause decide . " Deep in a venerable wood 1 Where oaks , with vocal skill endued , Did wondrous oracles of old impart , Beneath a little hill's inclining side , A grotto's seen where Nature's art Is exercis'd in all ...
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... sible , where the words have the greatest beauty and force . There is one thing in compositions of this sort which seems a little to want explaining , and that is the recitative music , which many people hear without 30 HUGHES'S POEMS .
... sible , where the words have the greatest beauty and force . There is one thing in compositions of this sort which seems a little to want explaining , and that is the recitative music , which many people hear without 30 HUGHES'S POEMS .
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... hear , Smiling they stood around , her soothing strains to And fill'd her happy soul with all their fire . AIR . O ... hears within a myrtle shade . An echo answer all his strain ; Love stole the pipe of sleeping Pan , and play'd ; Then ...
... hear , Smiling they stood around , her soothing strains to And fill'd her happy soul with all their fire . AIR . O ... hears within a myrtle shade . An echo answer all his strain ; Love stole the pipe of sleeping Pan , and play'd ; Then ...
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