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" MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,... "
The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular ... - Page 235
by William Hone - 1830
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Notes and Queries

1896 - 664 pages
...то A NIGHTINGALE ' (8ft S. vilL 429).— My heart aches and a drowsy numbneaf pains My senie. 'Til not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...thine happiness, That thou, light-winged Dryad— Singeāt of summer in full-throated ease*. Beyond doubt the poet must be disclaiming envy on his own...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...f had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of bcechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O, for a draught of...
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Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century in Six Lectures

David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...Nightingale," flow from a far more profound fountain of inspiration. After addressing the bird as a " light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green and shadows numberless, Singing of summer in full-throated ease," he adds, somewhat fantastically, it must be owned, at first—...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...I had drunk, . Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In' some melodious plot Of beechen green,...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute pa.st, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tie then, ye ocean-warriors 1 Our song and feast shall flow thy happiness, That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,...
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Chambers's pocket miscellany, Volumes 4-6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 678 pages
...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tia not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of bnechen green, and shadows numberless, Singcst of summer in full-throated case. O for a draught of...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...Lethe-wards had sunk ; Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too nappy in thy happmess, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. Here is a rich array of ideas clothed in the choicest words. But mark the wonderful voluptuousness...
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 548 pages
...thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That tiiou, light-winged Dryad of the tree» In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless Singest of summer in full-throated i 2. 0 for a draught of vintage, tfcat hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,...
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