Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
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... grace to a compliment , or terseness to the expression of a sudden emotion , or point and beauty to a calm reflection . To a great ex- tent , such poems are likely to be imitative ; and in that aspect they form a curiously exact measure ...
... grace to a compliment , or terseness to the expression of a sudden emotion , or point and beauty to a calm reflection . To a great ex- tent , such poems are likely to be imitative ; and in that aspect they form a curiously exact measure ...
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... grace of amenity which seems peculiar to those who are accumstomed to elegant society . . . . . These pro- ductions are more the effusions of taste than genius , and it is not sufficient that the poet is inspired by the Muse , he must ...
... grace of amenity which seems peculiar to those who are accumstomed to elegant society . . . . . These pro- ductions are more the effusions of taste than genius , and it is not sufficient that the poet is inspired by the Muse , he must ...
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... grace , so would I that it should Speak without words , such words as none can tell ; Her tress also should be of crisped gold . With wit , and these , perchance , I might be tried , And knit again with knot that should not slide . Sir ...
... grace , so would I that it should Speak without words , such words as none can tell ; Her tress also should be of crisped gold . With wit , and these , perchance , I might be tried , And knit again with knot that should not slide . Sir ...
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... grace Sheds itself through her face , As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain , all the good of the elements ' strife . Have you seen but a bright lily grow , Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall o ...
... grace Sheds itself through her face , As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain , all the good of the elements ' strife . Have you seen but a bright lily grow , Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall o ...
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... grace and feature , As Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature . Yeeres he numbred scarce thirteene When Fates turn'd cruell , Yet three fill'd Zodiackes had he beene The stage's jewell ; And did act ( what now we ...
... grace and feature , As Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature . Yeeres he numbred scarce thirteene When Fates turn'd cruell , Yet three fill'd Zodiackes had he beene The stage's jewell ; And did act ( what now we ...
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