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... o'er the waves of the north . " ad of toget F Ossian , -E . W 7567 The Political Motives of the Author of Don Roderick , unable to doom to obscurity Sir John Moore ! 115541 f We are are not very apt to quarrel with a poet for his ...
... o'er the waves of the north . " ad of toget F Ossian , -E . W 7567 The Political Motives of the Author of Don Roderick , unable to doom to obscurity Sir John Moore ! 115541 f We are are not very apt to quarrel with a poet for his ...
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... o'er his And we far away on the billow ! " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone , And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck , if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him . " But half of ...
... o'er his And we far away on the billow ! " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone , And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck , if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him . " But half of ...
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... o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit , And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied , in beauty may ...
... o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit , And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied , in beauty may ...
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... from home , and all its pleasures , Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures , O'er the raging billows borne . Men from England bought and sold me ; Paid my 212 RHYME . The Negro's Complaint, Cowper,
... from home , and all its pleasures , Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures , O'er the raging billows borne . Men from England bought and sold me ; Paid my 212 RHYME . The Negro's Complaint, Cowper,
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... o'er ; My scars are callous , or I should have dash'd My brain against these bars as the sun flash'd In mockery through them ; -if I bear and bore The much I have recounted , and the more Which hath no words , ' tis that I would not die ...
... o'er ; My scars are callous , or I should have dash'd My brain against these bars as the sun flash'd In mockery through them ; -if I bear and bore The much I have recounted , and the more Which hath no words , ' tis that I would not die ...
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Page 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Page 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Page 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Page 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Page 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...