Poems ..., Volum 1W. Collins, 1834 - 564 sider |
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Side xiii
... fall into that as any other ; -in spite of chronology , his first aberration of reason having taken place before he had " tasted the good word of God ; " - in spite of geography , that calamity having befallen him in London , where he ...
... fall into that as any other ; -in spite of chronology , his first aberration of reason having taken place before he had " tasted the good word of God ; " - in spite of geography , that calamity having befallen him in London , where he ...
Side xxiv
... falling off from the first , and it is surely better to feel that this consummate piece is too short , than even that it is long enough . Yet , long enough it is , from the very cause why any work of real genius must be so , which fills ...
... falling off from the first , and it is surely better to feel that this consummate piece is too short , than even that it is long enough . Yet , long enough it is , from the very cause why any work of real genius must be so , which fills ...
Side xxxiv
... falls asleep on the brink— an enemy of his Master comes , and poisons the stream - the flocks drink of it , are infected with dis- ease , and perish miserably . There is even an un- derplot , in which he himself acts the traitor , and ...
... falls asleep on the brink— an enemy of his Master comes , and poisons the stream - the flocks drink of it , are infected with dis- ease , and perish miserably . There is even an un- derplot , in which he himself acts the traitor , and ...
Side 70
... falls like an inverted cone , Wanting its proper base to stand upon . Man made for kings ! those optics are but dim , That tell you so — say , rather , they for him . That were indeed a king - ennobling thought , Could 70 TABLE TALK .
... falls like an inverted cone , Wanting its proper base to stand upon . Man made for kings ! those optics are but dim , That tell you so — say , rather , they for him . That were indeed a king - ennobling thought , Could 70 TABLE TALK .
Side 72
... fall . B. True . While they live , the courtly laureat pays His quit - rent ode , his peppercorn of praise ; And many a dunce , whose fingers itch to write , Adds , as he can , his tributary mite . A subject's faults a subject may ...
... fall . B. True . While they live , the courtly laureat pays His quit - rent ode , his peppercorn of praise ; And many a dunce , whose fingers itch to write , Adds , as he can , his tributary mite . A subject's faults a subject may ...
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