English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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... sound of a trumpet . If we teachers of literature can arouse the imagination , quicken the feelings , and refine the taste of our boys and girls , we shall do much towards shaping their characters and sweetening their lives . Finally ...
... sound of a trumpet . If we teachers of literature can arouse the imagination , quicken the feelings , and refine the taste of our boys and girls , we shall do much towards shaping their characters and sweetening their lives . Finally ...
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... sounds , the loving sym- pathy with the hard lives and fortunes of the poor , which appear in the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and The Deserted Village , are notes wholly alien to the so - called classical poets . On the other ...
... sounds , the loving sym- pathy with the hard lives and fortunes of the poor , which appear in the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and The Deserted Village , are notes wholly alien to the so - called classical poets . On the other ...
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... sound out trumpets ! " quo ' Buccleuch ; " Let's waken lord Scroope right merrilie ! " Then loud the warden's trumpet blew 66 " O wha dare meddle wi ' me ? " Then speedilie to work we gaed , ― And raised the slogan ane and a ' , And cut ...
... sound out trumpets ! " quo ' Buccleuch ; " Let's waken lord Scroope right merrilie ! " Then loud the warden's trumpet blew 66 " O wha dare meddle wi ' me ? " Then speedilie to work we gaed , ― And raised the slogan ane and a ' , And cut ...
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... sound . Give me a look , give me a face , That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing , hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes , but not my heart . TO CELIA ...
... sound . Give me a look , give me a face , That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing , hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes , but not my heart . TO CELIA ...
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... sound To many a youth and many a maid 95 Dancing in the checkered shade , And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday , Till the livelong daylight fail : Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a ...
... sound To many a youth and many a maid 95 Dancing in the checkered shade , And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday , Till the livelong daylight fail : Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a ...
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