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" ... his curled brows frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, •while winds and storms his lofty forehead beat; the common fate of all that's high or great. "
Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy - Page 14
by Sir John Denham - 1709 - 330 pages
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham, Page 127

Edmund Waller - 1857 - 378 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat : The common fate of all that 'a high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, While winds and stormshisloftyforeheadbeat — The common fate of all that's high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced, Which shade and shelter from...
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Early English Poems, Chaucer to Pope: Chiefly Unabridged; Illustrated with ...

1863 - 478 pages
...and his sides A shady mantle clothes; his curled brows Frowu on the gentle stream, which calmly flows While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The...fate of all that's high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced, Which shade and shelter from...
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Early English poems, Chaucer to Pope

English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The...fate of all that's high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced, Which shade and shelter from...
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Favourite English Poems: Chaucer to Pope, 1350-1700

1863 - 362 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The...fate of all that's high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced, Which shade and shelter from...
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...his sides a shady mantle clothes; his curled brows frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, while winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, the...fate of all that's high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, between the mountain and the stream embraced, which shade and shelter from...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The...fate of all that's high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced, Which shade and shelter from...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 1

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows ; While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The common fate of all that's high or great. ' ' There is in the English mind an indestructible stock of moral instincts, and grand melancholy ;...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows ; While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The common fate of all that's high or great.' 1 There is in the English mind an indestructible stock of moral instincts, and grand melancholy ; and...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 446 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on thé gentle stream, which calmly flows; While winds and storms his lofty forehead" beat, The common fate of ail that's high or gréât. conseils et des exemples; les seigneurs suivaient le prince, et la France...
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