Festival of Song ...Frederick Saunders |
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... sounds . We find the following estimate of his genius in the British Quarterly Review : - " He is , perhaps , the most picturesque poet we possess : his paintings are fresh , glittering and off - hand , done to the life . His love of ...
... sounds . We find the following estimate of his genius in the British Quarterly Review : - " He is , perhaps , the most picturesque poet we possess : his paintings are fresh , glittering and off - hand , done to the life . His love of ...
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... sounds that echo still . Campbell , with all a poet's appreciation , has thus beautifully ex- pressed our obligations to the great pioneer poet : - Chaucer ! our Helicon's first fountain - stream , Our morning Star of song , that led ...
... sounds that echo still . Campbell , with all a poet's appreciation , has thus beautifully ex- pressed our obligations to the great pioneer poet : - Chaucer ! our Helicon's first fountain - stream , Our morning Star of song , that led ...
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... sounds like a sentence of vanity on the things of this world , pronounced by a dying man , whose eye glares on eternity , and whose voice is raised by strength from another world . " Listen to a few of the strong stanzas : — Goe , soule ...
... sounds like a sentence of vanity on the things of this world , pronounced by a dying man , whose eye glares on eternity , and whose voice is raised by strength from another world . " Listen to a few of the strong stanzas : — Goe , soule ...
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... sounds of music Creep into our ears : soft stillness , and the night , Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which ...
... sounds of music Creep into our ears : soft stillness , and the night , Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which ...
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... sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull god ! why liest thou with the vile , In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly couch , A watch - case , or a common ' larum - bell ? Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship ...
... sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull god ! why liest thou with the vile , In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly couch , A watch - case , or a common ' larum - bell ? Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship ...
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