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... less known , perhaps , but scarcely less precious , is Archbishop Trench's Household Book of English Poetry . The patient labour expended on these anthologies will be as evident to any one who has toiled in the same field , as the fine ...
... less known , perhaps , but scarcely less precious , is Archbishop Trench's Household Book of English Poetry . The patient labour expended on these anthologies will be as evident to any one who has toiled in the same field , as the fine ...
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... fact not so much an alteration of the old spelling . as a reduction to uniformity which obviates number- less misinterpretations . Hardly a word can be found which was not in old days occasionally spelt as we PREFACE . xi.
... fact not so much an alteration of the old spelling . as a reduction to uniformity which obviates number- less misinterpretations . Hardly a word can be found which was not in old days occasionally spelt as we PREFACE . xi.
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... less truth than tongue ; And your true rights be termed a poet's rage And stretched metre of an antique song : But were some child of yours alive that time , You should live twice ; -- in it and in my rhyme . WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE ...
... less truth than tongue ; And your true rights be termed a poet's rage And stretched metre of an antique song : But were some child of yours alive that time , You should live twice ; -- in it and in my rhyme . WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE ...
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... less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits indu'th , Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Towards which Time leads me , and the will of ...
... less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits indu'th , Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Towards which Time leads me , and the will of ...
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... ! on my way The flowers I fondly thought too bright to die : Visions less fair will soothe my pensive breast That asks not happiness , but longs for rest . ECHO AND SILENCE . SIR SAMUEL IN eddying course when 88 ENGLISH SONNETS .
... ! on my way The flowers I fondly thought too bright to die : Visions less fair will soothe my pensive breast That asks not happiness , but longs for rest . ECHO AND SILENCE . SIR SAMUEL IN eddying course when 88 ENGLISH SONNETS .
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Author beauty behold bird breath bright charm Cornhill Crown 8vo dark DAVID GRAY dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth Edition EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eyes fair Faith fame fancy fear feel flowers friends grace happy HARTLEY COLERIDGE hast hath heart heaven heavenly HENRY CONSTABLE hope Illustrations JOHN KEATS JOHN MILTON JULIAN FANE Lady language light live London look Lord love thee Love's mind Mistress morn Muse never night o'er passion Paternoster Row Petrarch pleasure poems poet poetical poetry praise Price reader SAMUEL DANIEL Shakespeare shine sight sing sleep song sorrow soul SPEARE spirit story SURREY sweet tears thine things THOMAS WARTON thou art thought touches verse voice volume weary weep WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE WILLIAM DRUMMOND WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES WILLIAM SHAKE WILLIAM WORDS Wordsworth WORTH written