Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 3Chambers, 1922 - English literature |
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... heard , ' Good - morrow , Citizen ! ' a hollow word , As if a dead man spake it ! Yet despair Touches me not , though pensive as a bird Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare . In 1790 Wordsworth confesses that he was as yet hardly ...
... heard , ' Good - morrow , Citizen ! ' a hollow word , As if a dead man spake it ! Yet despair Touches me not , though pensive as a bird Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare . In 1790 Wordsworth confesses that he was as yet hardly ...
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... heard the woods and distant waters roar ; Or heard them not , as happy as a boy : The pleasant season did my heart employ : My old remembrances went from me wholly ; And all the ways of men , so vain and melancholy . But , as it ...
... heard the woods and distant waters roar ; Or heard them not , as happy as a boy : The pleasant season did my heart employ : My old remembrances went from me wholly ; And all the ways of men , so vain and melancholy . But , as it ...
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... heard of lamenta- tion , Rachel weeping for her children , and refusing to be comforted . She it was that stood in Bethlehem on the night when Herod's sword swept its nurseries of Innocents , and the little feet were stiffened for ever ...
... heard of lamenta- tion , Rachel weeping for her children , and refusing to be comforted . She it was that stood in Bethlehem on the night when Herod's sword swept its nurseries of Innocents , and the little feet were stiffened for ever ...
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