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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry - Page 65
by Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1016 pages
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Specimens of English poetry. For the use of Charterhouse school

English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, 16 And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops...Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade; 20 Yet hope not life from...
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With the Poets: A Selection of English Poetry

Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumphs of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...tempting Novelty thy cell refrain. And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain : 376 TO iD 1760.] 377 Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; 150 Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; ' Yet...
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With the poets: a selection of English poetry. [Ed.] by F.W. Farrar

Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumphs of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 47

1885 - 932 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1885 - 436 pages
...of misery being " the doom of man," in this life, as displayed in his " Vanity of Human Wishes." [" Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee."] Yet I observed that things were done upon the supposition of happiness ; grand...
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Calendar of Dalhousie College and University

Dalhousie University - 1887 - 206 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from...
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Obiter Dicta ...: Milton. Pope. Johnson. Burke. The muse of history. Charles ...

Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade...
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Obiter Dicta, Second Series

Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade...
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