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... soul ! Of these let others ask , To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale ; Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature , learn my tale . ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER ...
... soul ! Of these let others ask , To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale ; Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature , learn my tale . ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER ...
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... soul can now Its high presuming hopes avow ? Where he who thinks , with rapture blind , This hallowed work for him designed ? High on some cliff , to heaven up - piled , Of rude access , of prospect wild , Where , tangled round the ...
... soul can now Its high presuming hopes avow ? Where he who thinks , with rapture blind , This hallowed work for him designed ? High on some cliff , to heaven up - piled , Of rude access , of prospect wild , Where , tangled round the ...
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... soul , was known ; And Heaven , and Fancy , kindred powers , Have now o'erturned the inspiring bowers ; Or curtained close such scene from every future view , ODE , WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746 . How sleep the brave , who ...
... soul , was known ; And Heaven , and Fancy , kindred powers , Have now o'erturned the inspiring bowers ; Or curtained close such scene from every future view , ODE , WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746 . How sleep the brave , who ...
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... soul ! For sunny Florence , seat of art , Beneath her vines preserved a part , Till they , whom Science loved to name , ( O who could fear it ? ) quenched her flame . And , lo , an humbler relic laid In jealous Pisa's olive shade ! See ...
... soul ! For sunny Florence , seat of art , Beneath her vines preserved a part , Till they , whom Science loved to name , ( O who could fear it ? ) quenched her flame . And , lo , an humbler relic laid In jealous Pisa's olive shade ! See ...
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... soul - enforcing Goddess , stood ! There oft the painted native's feet Were wont thy form celestial meet : Though now with hopeless toil we trace Time's backward rolls , to find its place ; Whether the fiery - tresséd Dane , Or Roman's ...
... soul - enforcing Goddess , stood ! There oft the painted native's feet Were wont thy form celestial meet : Though now with hopeless toil we trace Time's backward rolls , to find its place ; Whether the fiery - tresséd Dane , Or Roman's ...
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