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... better One thing vident , that no man need sit down to read Christabel with any prospect of gratification , whose mind has not rejoiced habitually in the luxury of Visionary and superstitious reveries . He that is determined to try ...
... better One thing vident , that no man need sit down to read Christabel with any prospect of gratification , whose mind has not rejoiced habitually in the luxury of Visionary and superstitious reveries . He that is determined to try ...
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... better to " turn from the bridegroom's door . " O Wedding - Guest ! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea : So lonely ' twas , that God himself Scarce seemed there to be . O sweeter than the marriage - feast , ' Tis sweeter far ...
... better to " turn from the bridegroom's door . " O Wedding - Guest ! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea : So lonely ' twas , that God himself Scarce seemed there to be . O sweeter than the marriage - feast , ' Tis sweeter far ...
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... better not open this production , which is only proper for a solitary couch and a midnight taper . Mr Coleridge is the prince of superstitious poets ; and he that does not read Christabel with a strange and harrowing feeling of ...
... better not open this production , which is only proper for a solitary couch and a midnight taper . Mr Coleridge is the prince of superstitious poets ; and he that does not read Christabel with a strange and harrowing feeling of ...
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... better generation . I. - The first essential step towards the assimilation of the power and in- fluence of religion , and the character of its ministers , over the population of large towns , to that exercised in coun- try parishes , is ...
... better generation . I. - The first essential step towards the assimilation of the power and in- fluence of religion , and the character of its ministers , over the population of large towns , to that exercised in coun- try parishes , is ...
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... till on one occasion his fears for himself got the better of his sense of duty , and by a too precipitate flight Ꭰ you six or seven years in the Bodleian Li- brary 1819. ] 25 Notices of Reprints of Curious Old Books .
... till on one occasion his fears for himself got the better of his sense of duty , and by a too precipitate flight Ꭰ you six or seven years in the Bodleian Li- brary 1819. ] 25 Notices of Reprints of Curious Old Books .
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Page 187 - Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow, Enough if in our hearts we know There's such a place as Yarrow.
Page 59 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 38 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a
Page 181 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 272 - And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias : who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.