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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ... - Page 229
1822 - 388 pages
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's...tread, By mid-night lamps, the mansions of the dead, Thro' breathing statues, then unheeded things, Thro' rows of warriors, and thro' walks of kings ! What...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 23

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 522 pages
...numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part forever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread,...pealing organ and the pausing choir ; The duties by the lawn-robed prelate paid, And the last words that dust to dust conveyed ! Oh, gone forever ! take this...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 23

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 600 pages
...real woe inspires ; Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part forever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of...
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Odes and Epodes

Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...time' ; Minuc. Felix, 1. 3, crederes unam mentem duobus fuisse divisam; Tickell on death of Addison, ' Can I forget the dismal night that gave | My soul's best part forever to the grave ? ' ; and Villon's ' Deux estions et n'avions qu'ung coeur ; | S'il est mort,...
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Horace: Odes and Epodes

Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...time' ; Minuc. Felix, 1. 3, crederes unam mentem duobus fuisse divisam ; Tickell on death of Addison, ' Can I forget the dismal night that gave | My soul's best part forever to the grave ? ' ; and Villon's ' Deux estions et n'avions qu'ung coeur ; | S'il est mort,...
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Outline History of English and American Literature

Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 pages
...by his friend, Tickell : — " Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part forever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread,...mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeding things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings ; What awe did the slow, solemn...
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Outline History of English and American Literature: For Use in Colleges and ...

Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 566 pages
...companions tread, By midnight lamps the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeding things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings ; What awe did the slow, solemn march inspire, The pealing organ and the pausing choir; The duties by the lawn-robed prelate paid,...
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English Elegies

John Cann Bailey - 1900 - 330 pages
...real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the gravel How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through...
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Outline History of English and American Literature

Charles F. Johnson - 1900 - 566 pages
...who died unmarried in 1797. The funeral service is finely alluded to by his friend, Tickell : — " Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part forever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps the mansions of the...
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Walks in London, Volume 2

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 420 pages
...Addison gave rise to the noble lines of Tickell' Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's beat part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old...pealing organ and the pausing choir ; The duties by the lawn-robed prelate pay'd ; And the last words, that dust to dust convey'd ! While speechless o'er thy...
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