The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 286 pages |
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... beam ; An effervescence , sparkling , glowing , bright , That lifts the soul to mental phrensy's height ; Yet not , as thought Democritus , in fact , That none were Poets till their brains were crackt ; Nor such a lunacy , no power can ...
... beam ; An effervescence , sparkling , glowing , bright , That lifts the soul to mental phrensy's height ; Yet not , as thought Democritus , in fact , That none were Poets till their brains were crackt ; Nor such a lunacy , no power can ...
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... beams , It's sportive flight and overture restrains , And holds the rhapsodist in wisdom's chains ; ' Tis then the images of fancy shine , Reflecting sunbeams of a mind divine ; The sumptuous wanderings of ideas bright Receive the ...
... beams , It's sportive flight and overture restrains , And holds the rhapsodist in wisdom's chains ; ' Tis then the images of fancy shine , Reflecting sunbeams of a mind divine ; The sumptuous wanderings of ideas bright Receive the ...
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... beams of Lyra , ( Poet's star , ) Are softly falling from her evening car , With bursting anguish vents a fruitless moan , And dews with grief th ' unsullied church - yard stone . * Warton's " Pleasures of Melancholy . " D Sorrow ...
... beams of Lyra , ( Poet's star , ) Are softly falling from her evening car , With bursting anguish vents a fruitless moan , And dews with grief th ' unsullied church - yard stone . * Warton's " Pleasures of Melancholy . " D Sorrow ...
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... beams in every line ; Bright as the sun , and as the whirlwind strong , His subject bears us gorgeously along : " Theseids " were soon to dark oblivion cast , But one sole " Iliad " brightens to the last . Illustrious VIRGIL , lov'd in ...
... beams in every line ; Bright as the sun , and as the whirlwind strong , His subject bears us gorgeously along : " Theseids " were soon to dark oblivion cast , But one sole " Iliad " brightens to the last . Illustrious VIRGIL , lov'd in ...
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... beam'd , in rich display , A thousand years before e'en Homer's day . To us , perchance , is lost the flowing line , But not the grandeur of the thought divine ; This brightens still , with undiminish'd ray , When changeful sound has ...
... beam'd , in rich display , A thousand years before e'en Homer's day . To us , perchance , is lost the flowing line , But not the grandeur of the thought divine ; This brightens still , with undiminish'd ray , When changeful sound has ...
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