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" Where each old poetic mountain Inspiration breath'd around; Ev'ry shade and hallow'd fountain Murmur'd deep a solemn sound: Till the sad Nine in Greece's evil hour Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrantpower, And... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 292
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains : Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, 0 Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. in — i. Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...Till the sad Nine in Greece's evil hour Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant-power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains, When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy seaf encircled coast. III. 2. " Far from the sun and...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...shade and haliow'd fountain Murmur'd deep a solemn sound: Till the sad Nine, in Greece's evil hour, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion! next thy sea-encircled coast. Left their Parnassus, for the Latian...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus, for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. 1. Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, 0 Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. 1. Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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Five Centuries of the English Language and Literature: Volume CCCCC of the ...

Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - 1860 - 468 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains, Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power And coward Vice , that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, 0 Albion! next thy sea-encircled coast. Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...shade and hallow'd fountain Murmur'd deep a solemn sound : Till the sad Nine, in Greece's evil hour And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, 0 Albion ! next, thy sea-encircled coast, Left their Parnassus for the Latian...
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Poetical Works of Thomson and Gray

James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...Greece's evil hour Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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The Art of Elocution ...

George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 462 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latin plains; Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains ; When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, O Albion! next thy sea-encircled coast. ra. Far from the sun and summer-sale...
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Poems and Letters

Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...mountain t Infpiration breathed around ; Ev'ry fhade and hallow'd fountain Murmur'd deep a folemn found : Till the fad Nine, in Greece's evil hour, Left their...for the Latian plains. Alike they fcorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty fpirit loft, They...
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