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The English elocutionist, a collection of the finest passages of poetry and ... - Page 63
by Charles Hartley - 1872
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...lie buried an.d unseen, like gems or jewels in the ocean, .or like flowers in a forest. 2L . xV. " Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The lives of Hampden, Milton, and Cromwell are to be met with in every history of England. In Butler's...
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Swiftiana ...

Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 286 pages
...second paper might have possibly furnished a hint to Mr. Gray for this fine verse in his Elegy : * Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood." The passage in the Tatler is as follows : " I soon observed, for it was easy to discover, the seeds and...
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Swiftiana ...

Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 284 pages
...second paper might have possibly furnished a hint to Mr. Gray for this !fine verse in his Elegy : ,. . " Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood." The passage in the Tatler is as follows : " I soon observed, for it was easy to discover, the seeds and...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. *Th' applause of list'ning senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin...read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ? Forbade to wade-...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest : Some Cromwell guiltless of his country'* blood. 1'lf applause of listening senates to command, The threats...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation s eyes, Their lot forbade: nor eircumscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd,...
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A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a ...

John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. XVI. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined:...
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A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. XVI. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined:...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

1814 - 310 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. TIi' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed aione Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined : Forbade to wade...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd : Forbade to wade...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation'* eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes...
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