The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... praise , lamented shade ! receive , This praise at least a grateful Muse may give : The Muse , whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescribed her heights , and pruned her tender wing , ( Her guide now lost ) no more attempts to rise ...
... praise , lamented shade ! receive , This praise at least a grateful Muse may give : The Muse , whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescribed her heights , and pruned her tender wing , ( Her guide now lost ) no more attempts to rise ...
Page 80
... praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame , or to commend , A timorous foe , and ...
... praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame , or to commend , A timorous foe , and ...
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... praise , Praise that , from earth resulting , as it ought , To earth's acknowledged Sovereign , finds at once Its only just proprietor in Him . The soul that sees him or receives sublimed New faculties , or learns at least to employ ...
... praise , Praise that , from earth resulting , as it ought , To earth's acknowledged Sovereign , finds at once Its only just proprietor in Him . The soul that sees him or receives sublimed New faculties , or learns at least to employ ...
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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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