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" Inheritance of desolation leaves To great.expecting Hopes : He looks thereon, As from the shore of Peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in Impiety. "
The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem - Page 429
by William Wordsworth - 1814 - 447 pages
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...deceiv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man. And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes : he...peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. FROM 'HYMEN'S TRIUMPH. Ah ! I remember well (and how can I But evermore remember well) when first /Our...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 1

Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 pages
...decdv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes : he...peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. FROM 'HYMEN'S TRIUMPH. Ah ! I remember well (and how can I But evermore remember well) when first Our...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 1

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...deceiv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes : he...peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. FROM 'HYMEN'S TRIUMPH.' Ah ! I remember well (and how can I But evermore remember well) when first...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 pages
...deceived ; whilst man doth ransack me, And builds on blood, and rises by distress; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes —...of peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in imoiety. VoL. VII.— 18 VII. Thus, madam, fares that man that hath prepared A rest for his desires...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 pages
...builds on blood, and rises by distress; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes : he looks thereon, As from the shore of peace,...with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety.' Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion is a work of great length and of unabated freshness and vigour in itself,...
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The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631), Volume 1

Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - 1903 - 380 pages
...builds on blood and rises by distress ; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes ; he looks thereon As from the shore of peace with unwet eye And bears no venture in impiety.' This is Daniel at his best ; but he is equally at his best in that very graceful and truly Arcadian...
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A Sixteenth Century Anthology

Arthur Symons - 1906 - 526 pages
...deceived; whilst man dotli ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes: he...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, madam, fares the man that hath prepared A rest for his desires; and sees all things Beneath him; and...
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A Pageant of Elizabethan Poetry

Arthur Symons - 1906 - 426 pages
...deceived; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes: he...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, madam, fares the man that hath prepared A rest for his desires; and sees all things Beneath him ; and...
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The Pembroke Booklets: First Series, Volumes 1-3

1906 - 218 pages
...deceived ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes ; he...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, Madam, fares the man that hath prepared A rest for his desires, and sees all things Beneath him, and...
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The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes ; he looks thereon As from the shore of peace,...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, Madam, fares that man that hath prepar'd A rest for his desires ; and sees all things Beneath him ;...
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