Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings. The Metropolitan Magazine - Page 611835Full view - About this book
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
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...doth not sleep — He h»th awaken'd from the dream of life— 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy vision*, Concesi'd behind that screen. MAX. There lie her gloves...! You refuse me this — You make it an amusement clay. XL He has outsonr'd the shadow of our night ; Knvy and calumny, and hate and pain, And that unrest... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
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| 1840 - 974 pages
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| Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
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| English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
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