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" Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. "
The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ... - Page 636
by Great Britain - 1804
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Essays and Leaves from a Note-book

George Eliot - Authorship - 1884 - 404 pages
...have inspired " The Complaint," which forms the three first books of the " Night Thoughts " :— " Insatiate archer, could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn." Since we find Young departing from the truth of dates, in order to heighten the effect...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volume 2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 290 pages
...and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction : — '' Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice? Thy shaft...peace was slain, And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fitl'd her horn." I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews,...
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The Works of George Eliot: Essays and Leaves from a note book

George Eliot - 1885 - 328 pages
...to have inspired " The Complaint," which forms the three first books of the "Night Thoughts":— " Insatiate archer, could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn." Since we find Young departing from the truth of dates, in order to heighten the effect...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard...
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...suddenly and how nearly together the deaths of the three persons whom he laments, happened, none who has read the " Night Thoughts," and who has not read...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." To the sorrow Young felt at his losses we are indebted for * The Irish Peerage, if...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - English poetry - 1896 - 316 pages
...suddenly and how nearly together the deaths of the three persons whom he laments happened, none who has read the Night Thoughts— and who has not read...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.' To the sorrow Young felt at his losses we are indebted for these poems. There is...
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