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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers ... - Page 335
by Matthew Arnold - 1881
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The English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and ...

Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...fame unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty and his soul sincere, Heaven...gained from heaven, 'twas all he wished, a friend. ON SLAVERY.— Cowper. 0 FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where...
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Reading lessons for the higher classes in classical, middle and diocesan schools

William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...Fame unknown ; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven...to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosoni of his Father and his God. Gray. THE...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Fame unknown ; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven...gained from Heaven, 'twas all he wished, a friend. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...fame unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, 40 And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven...from Heaven — 'twas all he wished— a friend. No further seek his merit to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, — 5 (There they,...
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The Grammar School Reader: Containing the Essential Principles of Elocution ...

Salem Town - 1850 - 374 pages
...unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. 31. " Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven...from heaven, — 'twas all he wished, — a friend. 32. "No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, — There...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. 8. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven...gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) — a friend. 9. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet...
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The Grammar School Reader: Containing the Essential Principles of Elocution ...

Salem Town - 1850 - 372 pages
...unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. 31. "Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven...gained from heaven, — 'twas all he wished, — a flfiend. 32. "No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...Fame unknown; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven...to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God. Gray's letters...
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Poems for Young People

William Chambers - 1851 - 200 pages
...fame unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven...to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike, in trembling hope, repose) The bosom of his Father and his God. — QUAY....
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompence as largely send : He gave to Misery all he had, a...to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God. GRAY. 1. It...
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