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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 85
by Samuel Johnson - 1819
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires : A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field ; Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose uniber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; J^oud neigh the coursers o'er their htaps of corn, And ardent...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ...

Anna Seward - 1804 - 352 pages
...distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber 'd arms, by fits thick flashes send. i Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...on the spires : A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field j Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send j Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn. And ardent warriors wait the rising morn. As whenin...
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Liste chronologique des poëtes anglais. Histoire de la poésie et des ...

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 472 pages
...un peu d'anglais, cela suffira pour entendre ce qui cède. Chaque vers conservé porte un numéro. As when in stillness of the silent night As when the moon in all her lustre bright, 1. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light, pure...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...fires J01 Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, 705 Whose uraber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send, Lond neigh the .coursers o'er their heaps of...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 56

1809 - 536 pages
...Gleam on the valls, and trentbh' tin Hit spiret, A thousand piles OIP dusky horrors gild, And s/ioot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umter'd arms by fits thick flashes send. Loud ucigli the com •<•! . o'er their heaps of corn, And...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards...night, As when the moon in all her lustre bright ; As As when "the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her silvei; light ; pure...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrours gild, And shoot a ahady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming...the rising morn. As when in stillness of the silent sight, As when the Moon in all her lustre bright ; As when the Voon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber* d arms by fits thick flashes send; Loud neigh the coursers...wait the rising morn. As when in stillness of the sil 'nt sight, As when te Moon in all her lustre hritrht ; As when the oon, refulrent lamp of night,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...ßr s Gleam on the walls, ami tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the ihisky hor'rours gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards...umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send; Loud neigh t he coursers o'er their h'apsof corn ; And ardent warriors wait the rising mor ц. THE 1LIAU. ARGUMENT....
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