Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... 356 Irwan's Vale ........ 357 358 THOMAS CHATTERTON ............. The Minstrel's Song in Ella .............................. 362 WILLIAM MASON ............ .. Ode from Caractacus .... 364 ib . Epitaph on Mrs Mason ........
... 356 Irwan's Vale ........ 357 358 THOMAS CHATTERTON ............. The Minstrel's Song in Ella .............................. 362 WILLIAM MASON ............ .. Ode from Caractacus .... 364 ib . Epitaph on Mrs Mason ........
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... vale , by a small river fair , On either side where wild deer made repair , Set watches out that wisely could them keep , To supper went , and timeously they sleep . Of meat and sleep they cease with suffisaunce . The night was mirk ...
... vale , by a small river fair , On either side where wild deer made repair , Set watches out that wisely could them keep , To supper went , and timeously they sleep . Of meat and sleep they cease with suffisaunce . The night was mirk ...
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... vale ; The nightingale , with feathers new , she sings , The turtle to her mate hath told her tale . Summer is come ; for every spray now springs . The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he ...
... vale ; The nightingale , with feathers new , she sings , The turtle to her mate hath told her tale . Summer is come ; for every spray now springs . The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he ...
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... sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the violet - embroider'd vale , Where the love - lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well ; Canst MILTON . 233.
... sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the violet - embroider'd vale , Where the love - lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well ; Canst MILTON . 233.
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... vale , And flocks loud - bleating from the distant hills , And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail , Or stock - doves plain amid the forest deep , That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ...
... vale , And flocks loud - bleating from the distant hills , And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail , Or stock - doves plain amid the forest deep , That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ...
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