Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections from the Best Authors, Also Lists of Contemporaneous Writers and Their Principal Works |
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... thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world , with kings , The powerful of the earth , the wise , the good , Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past , All ...
... thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world , with kings , The powerful of the earth , the wise , the good , Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past , All ...
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... thou hast won : Still flows the fount whose waters strengthened thee . The victors ' names are yet too few to fill Heaven's mighty roll ; the glorious armory That ministered to thee is opened still . THE PAST . THOU unrelenting Past ...
... thou hast won : Still flows the fount whose waters strengthened thee . The victors ' names are yet too few to fill Heaven's mighty roll ; the glorious armory That ministered to thee is opened still . THE PAST . THOU unrelenting Past ...
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... Thou hast my better years ; Thou hast my earlier friends , - the good , the kind , - Yielded to thee with tears ; The venerable form , the exalted mind . My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back , yearns with desire intense , And ...
... Thou hast my better years ; Thou hast my earlier friends , - the good , the kind , - Yielded to thee with tears ; The venerable form , the exalted mind . My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back , yearns with desire intense , And ...
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... thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day ! Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow : Thou hast been out upon the deep at play , Riding all day the wild blue waves till now , Roughening their crests , and scattering high ...
... thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day ! Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow : Thou hast been out upon the deep at play , Riding all day the wild blue waves till now , Roughening their crests , and scattering high ...
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... thou Who minglest in the harder strife For truths which men receive not now , - Thy warfare only ends with life , - --- A friendless warfare , lingering long Through weary day and weary year : A wild and many - weaponed throng Hang on ...
... thou Who minglest in the harder strife For truths which men receive not now , - Thy warfare only ends with life , - --- A friendless warfare , lingering long Through weary day and weary year : A wild and many - weaponed throng Hang on ...
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Alba Longa Anglo-Saxon Antony Bardell beauty better birds blood Brutus Cæsar called Casca Cassius Cinna Clitus dark dead death deep doth earth English eternal eyes fancy father fear feel fire flowers genius give hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven History honor hope human ides of March JOHN Julius Cæsar kind king knew labor land language law of effect learned leave light living look lord Lucilius Mark Antony mind nature never night noble o'er objects Oliver Cromwell once palimpsest passion persons Pickwick pleasure poems poet poetry poor Rip Van Winkle rock Rome seemed smile soul sound speak spirit stand sweet taste tell thee thing thou thought tion Titinius truth virtue voice Volumnius WILLIAM wind wonder words