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... feeling , than Dana . Few have written nobler odes than Pierpont . Burns himself could hardly have thrown off a sweeter extempore effusion than some of Brainard's . In the difficult field of sacred drama , Hillhouse has shown a rich and ...
... feeling , than Dana . Few have written nobler odes than Pierpont . Burns himself could hardly have thrown off a sweeter extempore effusion than some of Brainard's . In the difficult field of sacred drama , Hillhouse has shown a rich and ...
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... feel what's life , indeed . Bursting to life , thy dominant desire Will upward flame , like a fierce forest fire ; Then , like a sea of fire , heave , roar , and dash- Roll up its lowest depths in waves , and flash A wild disaster round ...
... feel what's life , indeed . Bursting to life , thy dominant desire Will upward flame , like a fierce forest fire ; Then , like a sea of fire , heave , roar , and dash- Roll up its lowest depths in waves , and flash A wild disaster round ...
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... feels a deity within . Tam . Wondrous ! -What intercourse have they with men ? Had . Sometimes they deign to intermix with man , But oft with woman . Tam . Hah ! with woman ? Had . She Attracts them with her gentler virtues , soft , And ...
... feels a deity within . Tam . Wondrous ! -What intercourse have they with men ? Had . Sometimes they deign to intermix with man , But oft with woman . Tam . Hah ! with woman ? Had . She Attracts them with her gentler virtues , soft , And ...
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... feels so deathy ? Had . Dark imaginations haunt me When I recall the dreadful interview . Tam . O , tell them not - I would not hear them . Had . But why contemn a Spirit's love ? so high , So glorious , if he haply deigned ? — Tam ...
... feels so deathy ? Had . Dark imaginations haunt me When I recall the dreadful interview . Tam . O , tell them not - I would not hear them . Had . But why contemn a Spirit's love ? so high , So glorious , if he haply deigned ? — Tam ...
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... feeling the vanity of human hopes . " She was peculiarly sensitive to music . There was one song ( it was Moore's ... feel- ing of a mind essentially poetical . " The piece here referred to , is that extracted above . ED . Hagar in ...
... feeling the vanity of human hopes . " She was peculiarly sensitive to music . There was one song ( it was Moore's ... feel- ing of a mind essentially poetical . " The piece here referred to , is that extracted above . ED . Hagar in ...
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