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" Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly... "
The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 198
1820
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2

Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 pages
...the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, * Fingal, bi VOL. II. 2 I A vast assembly moving to and fro : Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show.* The singular yet -pleasing tradition of the souls of the deceased pursuing the chase upon their native...
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The works of mr. James Thomson, to which is prefixed the life of ..., Volume 1

James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...solitude, and perfect silence reign'd: So that to think you dreamt you almost was coustraln'd. XXX. As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles *, Placed far...Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. XXXI. Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound! Whose soft dominion Q'W this castle sways, And all the...
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The Works of Mr. James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...solitude, and perfect silence reign'd : So that to think you dreamt you almost was constrain'd. XXX. As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far...Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. XXXI. Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound ! Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all...
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The minstrel: in two books: with some other poems. To which are now added ...

James Beattie - 1803 - 240 pages
...Incessu tacito videt agmina magna mover!; Omnia tum tenues abeunt liquefacta sub auras. *#ยป##*#*# when a shepherd of the Hebrid isles Placed far amid...Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. EPISTLE. Hunton, near Maldstonc, Kent, August 1787. TRAVELLING," saith Horace, somewhere, in a letter,...
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...ocean Phoebus dips his wain, * Those islands on the western coast of Scotland called the Hebrides. A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show. XXXI. . Ye gods of Quiet, and of Sleep profound ! Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...it be lone fancy him beguiles, Or that aerial beings sometimes deign Georg. i. T. 478. -f- V. 101, To stand, embodied, to our senses plain,) Sees on...to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wonderous show.* I cannot at present recollect any solitude so romantic, or peopled with beings so...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...embodied, to our senses plain,) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phosbus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wonderous show.* I cannot at present recollect any solitude so romantic, or peopled with beings so...
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The Minstrel: In Two Books, with Some Other Poems, Volume 2

James Beattie, James Hay Beattie - 1807 - 212 pages
...stand embodied to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro ;...Then all at once in air dissolves the wond'rous show. ESSAYS AND FRAGMENTS. EPISTLE. Hunton, near Maidstone, Kent, August 1787. TRAVELLING," saith Horace,...
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The cabinet of poetry, containing the best entire pieces in the works of the ...

Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign H 2 To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the...Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show, Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound ! Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all the widely...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...stand:, embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, Hie whilst in ocean Phcebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro :...Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. Ye gods of quiet and of sleep profound, Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways, And all the wildly...
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