Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 52
... night ; He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies . He sung how some , chill'd in their ...
... night ; He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies . He sung how some , chill'd in their ...
Page 438
... Night Thoughts , feel not much concern whether Young passes now for a man of sorrow , or for a fellow of infinite jest . To this favour must come the whole family of Yorick . - His immortal part , wherever that now dwells , is still ...
... Night Thoughts , feel not much concern whether Young passes now for a man of sorrow , or for a fellow of infinite jest . To this favour must come the whole family of Yorick . - His immortal part , wherever that now dwells , is still ...
Page 445
... Night Thoughts . While it is remembered that from these he excluded many of his writings , let it not be for- gotten that the rejected pieces contained nothing prejudicial to the cause of virtue , or of religion . Were every thing that ...
... Night Thoughts . While it is remembered that from these he excluded many of his writings , let it not be for- gotten that the rejected pieces contained nothing prejudicial to the cause of virtue , or of religion . Were every thing that ...
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