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" care not Fortune what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Thro* which Aurora "
The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts - Page 12
by John Blair Linn - 1804 - 155 pages
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Whychcotte of St. John's; or, The court, the camp, the quarter-deck and the ...

Erskine Neale - 1833 - 656 pages
...with which he quoted this stanza from Thompson, as a faithful transcript of his own feelings : " I care not, fortune, what you me deny, You cannot rob me of fair Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening...
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Beauties of the British Poets: Being a Pocket Dictionary of Their Most ...

1834 - 340 pages
...hand and heart are free I And join'd to two, he fails not—to make three. Yi Natube. Her bounties. I care not, Fortune ! what you me deny: You cannot rob...nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ningface: You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The wood and...
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The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 2

1832 - 858 pages
...flections. He who possesses such exalted powers a perception and enjoyment, may almost say with the par, You cannot rob me of free nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, " I care not, fortune, what you me deny: Through which Aurora shows her bnght'oing fact; You cannot...
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Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu

Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...foaming floods, Are free alike to all. BURNS. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny, You cannot roh me of free nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her bright'ning face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volume 6

William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...appears to have a charm for him. To no lips would the strain of another poet be more appropriate. " I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob...nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...
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Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that ...

Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...unison responds." Nor can we conceive him to feel the exultation of Thomson when he exclaims,— „ "I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob...Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...we conceive him to feel the exultation of Thomson when he exclaims,— " I care not, Fortune, whal you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brighl'ning face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...
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Conversations at Cambridge ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 pages
...himself.” Thomson has all the fervour of the poet, without the chastened submission of the Christian :— I care not, Fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob...nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...
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Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 1

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1836 - 630 pages
...another stanza from the same poem from which the quotation at the head of this chapter is taken. " I care not, fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob...nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...
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Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 1

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1836 - 614 pages
...another stanza from the same poem from which the quotation at the head of this chapter is taken. " I care not, fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob...nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...
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