The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations |
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Page 76
... close covert by some brook , Where no profaner eye may look , Hide me from Day's garish eye , While the bee with honied thigh , That at her flowery work doth sing , And the waters murmuring , With such concert as they keep , Entice the ...
... close covert by some brook , Where no profaner eye may look , Hide me from Day's garish eye , While the bee with honied thigh , That at her flowery work doth sing , And the waters murmuring , With such concert as they keep , Entice the ...
Page 184
... close The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The blackening trains o ' craws to their repose : The toil - worn Cotter frae his labour goes , This night his weekly moil is at an end , Collects his spades , his mattocks , and his ...
... close The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The blackening trains o ' craws to their repose : The toil - worn Cotter frae his labour goes , This night his weekly moil is at an end , Collects his spades , his mattocks , and his ...
Page 274
... close . The words may not again be said , That he spoke to me , on death - bed laid ; They would rend this abbaye's massy nave , And pile it in heaps above his grave . " I swore to bury his Mighty Book , That never mortal might therein ...
... close . The words may not again be said , That he spoke to me , on death - bed laid ; They would rend this abbaye's massy nave , And pile it in heaps above his grave . " I swore to bury his Mighty Book , That never mortal might therein ...
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