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Page 27
... sleeps , doth die ; And this security , It is the common moth , That eats on wits and arts , and so destroys them both ; Are all the Aonian springs Dried up ? lies Thespia waste ? Doth Clarius ' harp want strings , That not a nymph now ...
... sleeps , doth die ; And this security , It is the common moth , That eats on wits and arts , and so destroys them both ; Are all the Aonian springs Dried up ? lies Thespia waste ? Doth Clarius ' harp want strings , That not a nymph now ...
Page 35
... , Fletcher's lines , Our stage's lustre Rome's outshines . These poets near our princes sleep , And in one grave their mansion keep . They lived to see so many days , Till time had blasted all their bays ; But cursed 35.
... , Fletcher's lines , Our stage's lustre Rome's outshines . These poets near our princes sleep , And in one grave their mansion keep . They lived to see so many days , Till time had blasted all their bays ; But cursed 35.
Page 59
... Sleep with a light , the lovely and undying , Around thy grave - a grave which is a shrine . LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON . CHARADE ON THE NAME OF THE POET CAMPBELL . Come from my First , ay , come ; The battle dawn is nigh : And the ...
... Sleep with a light , the lovely and undying , Around thy grave - a grave which is a shrine . LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON . CHARADE ON THE NAME OF THE POET CAMPBELL . Come from my First , ay , come ; The battle dawn is nigh : And the ...
Page 70
... sleep , As the bird beneath their eaves . The free , fair homes of England ! Long , long , in hut and hall , May hearts of native proof be rear'd To guard each hallow'd wall ! And green for ever be the groves , And bright the flowery ...
... sleep , As the bird beneath their eaves . The free , fair homes of England ! Long , long , in hut and hall , May hearts of native proof be rear'd To guard each hallow'd wall ! And green for ever be the groves , And bright the flowery ...
Page 90
... 'd , And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground over - power'd , The weary to sleep , and the wounded to die . * Ireland my darling , Ireland for ever . had di 11 . Sea he T :葡 te 90.
... 'd , And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground over - power'd , The weary to sleep , and the wounded to die . * Ireland my darling , Ireland for ever . had di 11 . Sea he T :葡 te 90.
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