English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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Page 275
... sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; IO Oh , say what stranger cause , yet unexplored , Could make a gentle belle reject a lord ? In tasks ...
... sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; IO Oh , say what stranger cause , yet unexplored , Could make a gentle belle reject a lord ? In tasks ...
Page 295
... sound so dreary : Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rook'd ' in the spire , screams loud : the gloomy aisles , Black - plaster'd , and hung round with shreds . of ' scutcheons And tatter'd coats of arms , send ...
... sound so dreary : Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rook'd ' in the spire , screams loud : the gloomy aisles , Black - plaster'd , and hung round with shreds . of ' scutcheons And tatter'd coats of arms , send ...
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... sound his drum , Booming from the sedgy shallow . Ruder sounds shall none be near , Guards nor warders challenge ... sound reveille . Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; Sleep ! thy hounds are by thee lying ; 30 Sleep ! nor dream in yonder ...
... sound his drum , Booming from the sedgy shallow . Ruder sounds shall none be near , Guards nor warders challenge ... sound reveille . Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; Sleep ! thy hounds are by thee lying ; 30 Sleep ! nor dream in yonder ...
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BEOWULF | 28 |
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