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... dark , unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air . - Elegy . BURNS . 1759–1796 . Robert Burns , the great Scottish song writer , was born in 1759 , and died ...
... dark , unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air . - Elegy . BURNS . 1759–1796 . Robert Burns , the great Scottish song writer , was born in 1759 , and died ...
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... darkness ! ye are wondrous strong , Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak , the rattling crags among , Leaps the live thunder ! —not from one lone cloud , But every mountain now ...
... darkness ! ye are wondrous strong , Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak , the rattling crags among , Leaps the live thunder ! —not from one lone cloud , But every mountain now ...
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... dark blue depths ; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean girdled with the sky . How beautiful is night ! Thalaba . COLERIDGE . 1772-1834 . Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Southey , and Wordsworth were inti ...
... dark blue depths ; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean girdled with the sky . How beautiful is night ! Thalaba . COLERIDGE . 1772-1834 . Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Southey , and Wordsworth were inti ...
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... dark social picture , involving jealousy and infidelity , in too vivid colors - an example that has since been followed by Hardy and other popular novelists . Reade has never been sur- passed in portrayal of character . He makes his men ...
... dark social picture , involving jealousy and infidelity , in too vivid colors - an example that has since been followed by Hardy and other popular novelists . Reade has never been sur- passed in portrayal of character . He makes his men ...
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... darkness or uncertain light , and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day , lay this other precept well to heart , which to me was of invaluable service : " Do the duty which lies nearest thee , " which thou knowest to be a ...
... darkness or uncertain light , and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day , lay this other precept well to heart , which to me was of invaluable service : " Do the duty which lies nearest thee , " which thou knowest to be a ...
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