The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White1829 |
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... lyre in his metre , and he too often sacrifices that harshness which sets off the smoother passages of a writer's works , and prevents sameness and monotony , to mere cold purity of style . Perhaps no poem of equal size ever cost its ...
... lyre in his metre , and he too often sacrifices that harshness which sets off the smoother passages of a writer's works , and prevents sameness and monotony , to mere cold purity of style . Perhaps no poem of equal size ever cost its ...
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... lyre of Heav'n another string . ( 3 ) • The Swedish sage ( 4 ) admires , in yonder bowers , Ilis winged insects , and his rosy flowers ; Calls from their woodland haunts the savage train With sounding horn , and counts them on the plain ...
... lyre of Heav'n another string . ( 3 ) • The Swedish sage ( 4 ) admires , in yonder bowers , Ilis winged insects , and his rosy flowers ; Calls from their woodland haunts the savage train With sounding horn , and counts them on the plain ...
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... lyre ! Wrapt in historic ardour , who adore Each classic haunt , and well - remember'd shore , Where Valour tuned , amid her chosen throng , The Thracian trumpet and the Spartan song : Or wandering thence , behold the later charms Of ...
... lyre ! Wrapt in historic ardour , who adore Each classic haunt , and well - remember'd shore , Where Valour tuned , amid her chosen throng , The Thracian trumpet and the Spartan song : Or wandering thence , behold the later charms Of ...
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... lyre of Heaven another string . The seven strings of Apollo's harp were the symboli- cal representation of the seven planets . Herschell , by discovering an eighth , might be said to add another string to the instrument . Linnĉus . Note ...
... lyre of Heaven another string . The seven strings of Apollo's harp were the symboli- cal representation of the seven planets . Herschell , by discovering an eighth , might be said to add another string to the instrument . Linnĉus . Note ...
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... lyre , and not the British teylin , or harp . 2 Bawn , from the Teutonic Bawen - to construct and secure with branches of trees , was so called because the primitive Celtic fortifi- cation was made by digging a ditch , throwing up a ...
... lyre , and not the British teylin , or harp . 2 Bawn , from the Teutonic Bawen - to construct and secure with branches of trees , was so called because the primitive Celtic fortifi- cation was made by digging a ditch , throwing up a ...
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