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... o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards , the famous Druids lie ; Nor on the fhaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva fpreads her wizard stream t . THE mention of places ...
... o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards , the famous Druids lie ; Nor on the fhaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva fpreads her wizard stream t . THE mention of places ...
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... that describes the demoli- tion of the thirty villages by William the Conqueror , is well imagined ; particularly , * See particularly , ver . 151 . Round Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd , O'er heaps of 20 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... that describes the demoli- tion of the thirty villages by William the Conqueror , is well imagined ; particularly , * See particularly , ver . 151 . Round Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd , O'er heaps of 20 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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Joseph Warton. Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd , O'er heaps of ruin ftalk'd the ftately hind ; The fox obfcene to gaping tombs retires , And favage howlings fill the facred quires Though I cannot forbear thinking , that the ...
Joseph Warton. Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd , O'er heaps of ruin ftalk'd the ftately hind ; The fox obfcene to gaping tombs retires , And favage howlings fill the facred quires Though I cannot forbear thinking , that the ...
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... o'er , And the refounding shore , A voice of weeping heard , and loud lament ! From haunted spring , and dale Edg'd with poplar pale , The parting Genius is with fighing fent ; With flower - enwoven treffes torn The nymyhs in twilight ...
... o'er , And the refounding shore , A voice of weeping heard , and loud lament ! From haunted spring , and dale Edg'd with poplar pale , The parting Genius is with fighing fent ; With flower - enwoven treffes torn The nymyhs in twilight ...
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... o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening fhower of vegetable down Amufive floats † . In what other poet , do we find the filence and expectation that precedes an April shower infifted on , as in ver . 165 of SPRING ...
... o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening fhower of vegetable down Amufive floats † . In what other poet , do we find the filence and expectation that precedes an April shower infifted on , as in ver . 165 of SPRING ...
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