The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... fame he enjoyed ; it was probably the highest which dramatic genius could confer , but dramatic genius was a new excellence , and not well understood . Its claims were probably not heard out of the jurisdiction of the master of the ...
... fame he enjoyed ; it was probably the highest which dramatic genius could confer , but dramatic genius was a new excellence , and not well understood . Its claims were probably not heard out of the jurisdiction of the master of the ...
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... fame , But king nor peer to such a peerless dame . O happiness enjoy'd but of a few ! And , if possess'd , as soon decay'd and done As is the morning's silver - melting dew Against the golden splendour of the Sun ! An expir'd date ...
... fame , But king nor peer to such a peerless dame . O happiness enjoy'd but of a few ! And , if possess'd , as soon decay'd and done As is the morning's silver - melting dew Against the golden splendour of the Sun ! An expir'd date ...
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... fame confound ; And all my fame that lives , disbursed be To those that live , and think no shame of me . " Thou , Collatine , shalt oversee this will ; How was I overseen , that thou shalt see it ! My blood shall wash the slander of ...
... fame confound ; And all my fame that lives , disbursed be To those that live , and think no shame of me . " Thou , Collatine , shalt oversee this will ; How was I overseen , that thou shalt see it ! My blood shall wash the slander of ...
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... fame ! But since your worth ( wide , as the ocean is ) The humble as the proudest sail doth bear , My saucy bark , inferior far to his , On your broad main doth wilfully appear . Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat , Whilst he ...
... fame ! But since your worth ( wide , as the ocean is ) The humble as the proudest sail doth bear , My saucy bark , inferior far to his , On your broad main doth wilfully appear . Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat , Whilst he ...
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... fame so to herself contrives , The scars of battle scapeth by the flight , And makes her absence yaliant , not her might . " O pardon me , in that my boast is true ; The accident which brought me to her eye , Upon the moment did her ...
... fame so to herself contrives , The scars of battle scapeth by the flight , And makes her absence yaliant , not her might . " O pardon me , in that my boast is true ; The accident which brought me to her eye , Upon the moment did her ...
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