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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature - Page 436
by H. Nolte - 1823
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Hunter's Tracts

Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 336 pages
...myself from observing that the Commentators have left unnoticed a probable origin of the fine passage Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; in Constable's Third Sonnet of the Fifth Decade...
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Milton: A Sheaf of Gleanings After His Biographers and Annotators: I ...

Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 90 pages
...myself from observing that the Commentators have left unnoticed a probable origin of the fine passage Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; in Constable's Third Sonnet of the Fifth Decade...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...the heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bow'd. Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar: Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...Compare I. 57. woven sounds. See Note on I. 72. Stooping, <fc.] Compare 301 of the Comus. Comus, I. 333. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide watered shore, 75 Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not permit, -' Some still removed...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...the heavens' wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide water'd shore Singing slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit,' Some still removed place...
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The speaker: or, Miscellaneous pieces selected from the best English writers ...

William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...the Heav'ns' wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still, removed...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...the heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, , I hear the far-off curfew sound, „ Over some wide water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...
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The Class Book of Poetry

Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...the heav'n's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide- water' d shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way; And oft, as if her head she bow'd Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water' d shoar, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the aj-re will not permit, Some still removed...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

1853 - 560 pages
...the heavens' wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud, Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off Curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed...
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