Lives of the English Sacred Poets, Volumen 2Parker, 1839 - 376 páginas |
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... from ten thousand lyres breaking into jubilee , and the River of Bliss rolling " o'er Elysian flowers its amber stream . " The fancy of our English Homer did not shine less beautifully at its setting , than at its dawn ; 52 JOHN MILTON .
... from ten thousand lyres breaking into jubilee , and the River of Bliss rolling " o'er Elysian flowers its amber stream . " The fancy of our English Homer did not shine less beautifully at its setting , than at its dawn ; 52 JOHN MILTON .
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... o'er , Nor Jordan's stream , nor death's cold flood , Should fright us from the shore . Or turn to the Hymn upon the Resurrection , which com- mences with a sublime stanza : He dies ! the friend of sinners dies ! Lo ! Salem's daughters ...
... o'er , Nor Jordan's stream , nor death's cold flood , Should fright us from the shore . Or turn to the Hymn upon the Resurrection , which com- mences with a sublime stanza : He dies ! the friend of sinners dies ! Lo ! Salem's daughters ...
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... o'er with ghastly shapes which once were men . And he is related , on one occasion , to have wandered with a book in his hand into the enemies ' camp , and to have experienced considerable difficulty in acquitting himself of the ...
... o'er with ghastly shapes which once were men . And he is related , on one occasion , to have wandered with a book in his hand into the enemies ' camp , and to have experienced considerable difficulty in acquitting himself of the ...
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... O'er devastation we blind revels keep ; Whole buried towns support the dancer's heel . * # * * - Each element partakes our scattered spoils ; As nature wide , our ruins spread ; man's death Inhabits all things , but the thought of man ...
... O'er devastation we blind revels keep ; Whole buried towns support the dancer's heel . * # * * - Each element partakes our scattered spoils ; As nature wide , our ruins spread ; man's death Inhabits all things , but the thought of man ...
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... o'er height , Order o'er order rising , blaze o'er blaze , As in a theatre , surround this scene , Intent on man , and anxious for his fate . Night IX . A modern critic complains that the Night Thoughts present nothing of entertaining ...
... o'er height , Order o'er order rising , blaze o'er blaze , As in a theatre , surround this scene , Intent on man , and anxious for his fate . Night IX . A modern critic complains that the Night Thoughts present nothing of entertaining ...
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