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" All green was vanish'd, save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue ; Save the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread. "
Annual Register - Page 553
edited by - 1813
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 20

1812 - 532 pages
...description which cannot fail to strike, if it had no other merit, from its mere truth and accuracy. - Cold grew the foggy morn, the day was brief, Loose...crimson leaf; The dew dwelt ever on the herb ; the woods Eoar'd with strong blasts, with mighty showers the flood* ; All green was vanish'd, save of pine and...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 54

1813 - 818 pages
...victim fast ; . The Noble Friend still condescension show'd, And, as before, with praises overflow'dj But his grave Lady took a silent view Of all that...was brief, Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf j The dew dwelt ever on the herb ; the woods Roar'd with strong blasts, with mighty showers the floods...
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The works of ... George Crabbe, Volume 3

George Crabbe - 1820 - 260 pages
...pass'd, While the vain Beauty held her victim fast ; The Noble Friend still condescension show'd, And, as before, with praises overflow'd ; But his grave...pass'd, and smiling, pitied too. Cold grew the foggy mprn, the day was brief, Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf; The dew dwelt ever on the herb...
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Annual Register, Volume 54

Edmund Burke - 1821 - 976 pages
...the vain Beauty held her victim fast ; ; ; , • The Noble Friend still condescension show'd, And, as before, with praises overflow'd ; But his grave...pitied too. Cold grew the foggy morn, the day was brieft '' " • Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf; The dew dwelt ever on the herb ; the woods...
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Floral Emblems

Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 pages
...grief, How like thou art to me." Faded leaves are made emblematical of this gloomy and pensive temper. " Cold grew the foggy morn, the day was brief, Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf." " So melancholy never tints Crabbe. The mind that owns her care With health or warmth, but only prints...
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The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: Complete in One Volume

George Crabbe - 1829 - 348 pages
...the vain heanty held her vietim fast; The nohle friend still eondeseension show'd, And, as hefore, with praises overflow'd ; But his grave lady took...view Of all that pass'd, and smiling, pitied too. I Cold grew the foggy morn, the day was hrief, j Loose on the eherry hung the erimson leaf; j The dew...
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Stratton Hill: A Tale of the Civil Wars, Volume 2

John Carne - 1829 - 220 pages
...anguish oi spirit than his chequered life had yet known. CHAPTER IV. •• Cold was the evening breeze, the day was brief', Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf, The dew dwelt ever on the herbs, the woods Roar'd with strong blasts, with mighty showers the floods.'' THE tide of war, that...
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Poetical Works, Volume 4

George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 pages
...pass'd, While the vain Beauty held her victim fast ; The Noble Friend still condescension show'd, And, as before, with praises overflow'd ; But his grave...on the cherry hung the crimson leaf; The dew dwelt ever^on the herb ; the woods Roar'd with strong blasts, with mighty showers the floods : All green...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...paœ'd, While the vain beauty held her victim fast ; The noble friend slill condescension show'd, And, troubled eye the lady saw, Yet felt too brave, too...the jnrring keys Touching, was not one moment at h w.ie brief, Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf ; The dew dwelt ever on the herb ; the woods...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...stroke: That gun itself, that murders all this peace, Adds to the charm, because it soon must cease. obe0Μ$ Roared with strong blasts, with mighty showers the floods: All green was vanished save of pine and...
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