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The Poetical Works of John Milton ... - Page 8
by John Milton - 1824 - 131 pages
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The Simmons Reading Books: Book Eight

Augustus Hill Kelley - 1914 - 472 pages
...pleas'd him, and their cares distrest; To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven : As some...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. THE BEST SERVICE It is something to make two blades of...
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A History of English Literature

Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 pages
...concluding lines about the country parson : To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. In this poem, too, as we shall have reason to notice...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning: Ed., with Introduction ...

Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, 190 issing sound; And Géraldine again turned round, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view,...
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Child Classics: The Sixth Reader

Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1917 - 386 pages
...pleased him, and their cares distress'd ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall...furze, unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view;...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...pleased him, and their cares distressed : To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, 85 But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. 90 The Schoolmaster (From The Deserted Village) Beside...
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Johnson & Goldsmith & Their Poetry

William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...pleased him, and their cares distressed ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall...Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 pages
...pleased him, and their cares distressed: To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall...Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...pleased him, and their cares distressed : To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. 86 90 The Schoolmaster {From The Deserted Village) Beside...
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Expressive English

James Champlin Fernald - 1918 - 488 pages
...And again, summing up his grand life: "To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." Of a different, but still of a noble type, are the similes...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2

1918 - 2062 pages
...pleased him, and their cares distressed; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all the Spaniard promise, if we yield, to let us go; We...lion there lay dying, and they yielded to the foe. arc spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way,...
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