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... Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake . " 3 ( P. 9. ) When the prophet exclaims , " Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place , " or when our prince of moral poets cries out with honest sensibility , " Oh for a lodge in ...
... Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake . " 3 ( P. 9. ) When the prophet exclaims , " Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place , " or when our prince of moral poets cries out with honest sensibility , " Oh for a lodge in ...
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... nature the subject of an absolute predication is unphilosophical enough ; and we dispute the right of Lord Byron to ... natural is gaiety of spirits where the head and heart are sound . " Whom call we gay ? that honour has been long The ...
... nature the subject of an absolute predication is unphilosophical enough ; and we dispute the right of Lord Byron to ... natural is gaiety of spirits where the head and heart are sound . " Whom call we gay ? that honour has been long The ...
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... nature . The banks of the Rhine , with their broken piles and ruined masses of antique grandeur , blended with the smiling products of recent culture , a variegated scene of beauty and sublimity , are depicted in three or four stanzas ...
... nature . The banks of the Rhine , with their broken piles and ruined masses of antique grandeur , blended with the smiling products of recent culture , a variegated scene of beauty and sublimity , are depicted in three or four stanzas ...
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... Nature , whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps , And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit , yet appals ...
... Nature , whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps , And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit , yet appals ...
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... nature , to cultivate an exclusive acquaintance with the earth , the sky , and the ocean . In a word , the misanthropic poet , after boasting how much he soars above the homely maxim of " Homo sum , nihil humani à me alienum puto ...
... nature , to cultivate an exclusive acquaintance with the earth , the sky , and the ocean . In a word , the misanthropic poet , after boasting how much he soars above the homely maxim of " Homo sum , nihil humani à me alienum puto ...
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