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" Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet... "
The Speaking Voice: Principles of Training Simplified and Condensed - Page 117
by Katherine Jewell Everts - 1908 - 217 pages
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Wild Scenes and Song-birds

Charles Wilkins Webber - 1858 - 370 pages
...illustrate—in one of the concluding stanzas to the Skylark! " Better than all measures, Of delighful sound; Better than all treasures, That in books are...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground." But, ah, wo is me ! Weep now, Urania—thou eldest muse —for Jiim ! That harmony paused—- " And...
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Wild Scenes and Song-birds

Charles Wilkins Webber - 1858 - 372 pages
...Skylark ! " Better than all measures, Of delighful sound ; Better than all treasures, That in hooks are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground." But, ah, wo is me ! Weep now, Urania — thou eldest muse — for him ! That harmony paused — -And...
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...that toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou soorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness...
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Works ...

Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...Thy skill to poet were, thou seorner of the ground!* Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain mutt know; Such harmonious madness from my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening nao " In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, " we spent a wee* or two near Leghorn, borrowing the...
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Once a Week, Volume 1; Volume 18

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 592 pages
...or books ! Better it is for once to see the bees improve the shining hour than to do it ourselves. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found is the music with which earth and air are ringing. That blackbird in the tall pear tree is drunk with...
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Poets of England and America; being selections from the best authors of both ...

England - 1860 - 532 pages
...and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. Mster. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among...
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Art, Literature, and the Drama

Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 pages
...exuberance cf fancy, was incalculably superior to Wordsworth ? But mark their inferences. Shelley. " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen, then, as I am listening now." Wordsworth. " What though my course be rugged and uneven, To prickly moors and dusty ways confined,...
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Pearls from the poets: specimens selected, with biogr. notes, by H.W. Dulcken

Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! TRUE LOVELINESS. 57 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such...
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 130 pages
...that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,...
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