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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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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Though he in all the people's eyes seem'd great, Yet greater he appear'd in his retreat. SIR J. DENHAM. While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The common fate of all that's high or great. SIR J. DENHAM. These are they Deserve their greatness and unenvied stand, Since what they act transcends...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1876 - 872 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, Hey nonny, nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no moe Of dumps so dull that 's high or great. Low at his foot a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1877 - 472 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." l 1 English Poets, vii. 236- 7. There is in the English mind an indestructible store of moral instincts,...
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The Book of the Thames: From Its Rise to Its Fall

Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 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 and If ho bestowed celebrity on Cooper's Hill, he derived hence the greater portion of his fame: tho...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Though he in all the people's eyes seem'd great, Yet greater he appear'd in his retreat. SIR J. DENIIAM. While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The common fate of all that's high or great. SIR J. DENHAM. These are they Deserve their greatness and unenvied stand, Since what they act transcends...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 406 pages
...Cooper's Hill. 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 plac'd, Between the mountain and the stream embrac'd, Which shade and shelter from...
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Gems from the English Poets: Chaucer to Tennyson ; with Biographical Notices ...

English poets - 1889 - 596 pages
...clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, While winds and stormshislofty forehead beat — 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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Az Angol irodalom története, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 pages
...his sides A shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which ealmly flows; While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The common fate of all that's high or great. erkölcsök, a társalgás, a styl, a színház, az ízlés, minden franczia vagy igyekszik az lenni....
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 1

1893 - 386 pages
...sides 38 39 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, bow at his foot a spacious plain is plac'd, Between the mountain and the stream embrac'd, Which shade...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious ..., Volume 1873

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...Though he in all the people's eyes seem'd great, Yet greater he appear'd in his retreat. SIR J. DENHAM. While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat, The common fate of all that's high or great. SIR J. DENHAM. These are they Deserve their greatness and unenvied stand, Since what they act transcends...
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