The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... fire ; His precepts teach but what his works inspire . Our critics take a contrary extreme , They judge with fury , but they write with phlegm : Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits , than critics in as wrong quotations ...
... fire ; His precepts teach but what his works inspire . Our critics take a contrary extreme , They judge with fury , but they write with phlegm : Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits , than critics in as wrong quotations ...
Page 107
... fire's tremendous light ; Swift from pursuing horrors take your way , And leave your little ALL to flames a prey ; Then thro ' the world a wretched vagrant roam , For where can starving merit find a home ? In vain your mournful ...
... fire's tremendous light ; Swift from pursuing horrors take your way , And leave your little ALL to flames a prey ; Then thro ' the world a wretched vagrant roam , For where can starving merit find a home ? In vain your mournful ...
Page 219
... fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , & what art , Could twist 219 WILLIAM BLAKE.
... fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , & what art , Could twist 219 WILLIAM BLAKE.
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CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL Of Dorset 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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