Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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162 BEN JONSON . . . . . . . . . . . . To Celia . . . . . . . Song to Celia . . . . . . . . The
Sweet Neglect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ib . To the
World . . . . . . . . Song of Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Song from the Masque of
Beauty .
162 BEN JONSON . . . . . . . . . . . . To Celia . . . . . . . Song to Celia . . . . . . . . The
Sweet Neglect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ib . To the
World . . . . . . . . Song of Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Song from the Masque of
Beauty .
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The Sensitive Plant . . . . . . . . . . . 441 From the Demon of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 0001101100 TO Night . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Sensitive Plant . . . . . . . . . . . 441 From the Demon of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 0001101100 TO Night . . . . . . . . . . . .
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His genius rose at once on his native land , like the morning - star after a long
night of obscurity ; and on his death the splendour of this illus . trious dawn
suffered an eclipse of nearly two centuries , when the Reformation ushered in the
most ...
His genius rose at once on his native land , like the morning - star after a long
night of obscurity ; and on his death the splendour of this illus . trious dawn
suffered an eclipse of nearly two centuries , when the Reformation ushered in the
most ...
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I have watched all night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes glitter ,
sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of
a deep green , That is , it was the hour of noon . tended the Danes in their ...
I have watched all night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes glitter ,
sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of
a deep green , That is , it was the hour of noon . tended the Danes in their ...
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... afterwards , to heighten the enchantments of a moonlight night favourable to
love , pourtrays as stealing to the ramparts of Troy to gaze on the Grecian tents-
Sighing his soul towards the Grecian camp Where Creseide lay that night . But
the ...
... afterwards , to heighten the enchantments of a moonlight night favourable to
love , pourtrays as stealing to the ramparts of Troy to gaze on the Grecian tents-
Sighing his soul towards the Grecian camp Where Creseide lay that night . But
the ...
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| Title | Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
| Author | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Editor | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Contributor | Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Publisher | Oliver & Boyd, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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