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" Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. "
Licida, di Giovanni Milton: Mondodia per la morte del naufragato Eduardo King - Page 52
by John Milton - 1812 - 55 pages
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...nothing said: " But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks : Throw hither all your quaint enamelFd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...nothing said: " But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks : Throw hither all your quaint enamelFd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 pages
...years ago, "that the most accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty!" " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse !" I look out of my window and see that a shower has jus! fallen : the fields look green after it,...
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The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...the door, Stands ready to smite once, & smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And...valleys low, where the mild whispers use. Of shades, & wanton winds, & gashing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all...
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English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises ...

George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...Ham. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns - Id., iii. I. Return Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return Sicilian Muse ' Lycidas.' 132. Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes The genuine mien and character would trace...
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A jar of honey from mount Hybla

Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 264 pages
...lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 pages
...it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flo w'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams;...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...that two-handed engine ut the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green-turf suck...
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The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volume 6

1855 - 494 pages
...late, For a laggard in love and a dastard in war AVas to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar." " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowreis of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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