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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ... - Page 11
by Thomas Gray - 1800 - 223 pages
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Studies from the English Poets

George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames, for...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...
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A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from ..., Volume 1

English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...
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A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best ...

English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...
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A Book for a Corner; Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from ..., Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...
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A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best ...

Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a.second spring. -Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 494 pages
...unity of the impression, the coinherence of the brightness, the motion, and the line of motion. P. 10. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pi ' ,ji, hy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...vol. iv. p. 410.) V. 21. This invocation is taken from Green's Grotto: see Dodsley. Col. vol. vp 159. Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent...pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, 25 With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral?. What idle progeny succeed...
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The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth ...

William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames ! for...seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margin green, The paths of pleasure trace : Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure traee ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, & With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny suceeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? *i While some on earnest business...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seehi to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. ยป Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen V. 6. " and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts bis princely brow." Thoms. Sum. 1412. W. V. 10. " The...
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