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Page iii
... thoughts conveyed in natural language , whereas in- spiration is a fupernatural agent , and what in one age passes for sublime , may in ano- ther be only confidered as abfurd . POEMS of the ballad kind have been omit- ted , PREFACE . iii.
... thoughts conveyed in natural language , whereas in- spiration is a fupernatural agent , and what in one age passes for sublime , may in ano- ther be only confidered as abfurd . POEMS of the ballad kind have been omit- ted , PREFACE . iii.
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... thought unnecessary to attempt what has been already executed in the best and most popular of our modern mif- cellanies . A fufficient account of all the British poets may be found either in Percy's Collection ; or in Headley's Select ...
... thought unnecessary to attempt what has been already executed in the best and most popular of our modern mif- cellanies . A fufficient account of all the British poets may be found either in Percy's Collection ; or in Headley's Select ...
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... thoughts thy thoughts do wear , Thy truth thy faith may not avail For thy good - will . Why shouldft thou fo Still graft where grace it will not grow ? Alas poor heart , thus haft thou spent Thy flowering time , thy pleasant years ...
... thoughts thy thoughts do wear , Thy truth thy faith may not avail For thy good - will . Why shouldft thou fo Still graft where grace it will not grow ? Alas poor heart , thus haft thou spent Thy flowering time , thy pleasant years ...
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... thought was free , my heart was light , I marked not who loft , who faught , * I plaid by day , I flept by night , I forced not who wept , who laugh'd ; Perhaps faved , or won . My thought from all fuch things was free , And ANONYMOUS . II.
... thought was free , my heart was light , I marked not who loft , who faught , * I plaid by day , I flept by night , I forced not who wept , who laugh'd ; Perhaps faved , or won . My thought from all fuch things was free , And ANONYMOUS . II.
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George Ellis. My thought from all fuch things was free , And I myself at liberty . I took no heed to taunts nor toys , As lief to see them frown as smile ; Where fortune laugh'd I fcorn'd their joys , I found their frauds , and every ...
George Ellis. My thought from all fuch things was free , And I myself at liberty . I took no heed to taunts nor toys , As lief to see them frown as smile ; Where fortune laugh'd I fcorn'd their joys , I found their frauds , and every ...
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