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... rests with posterity : and of those noble ornaments of our country , and it can possess none nobler , happily all survive , with the exception of Keats , Wolfe , and the mightier name of Byron . Keats died at an early age , probably ...
... rests with posterity : and of those noble ornaments of our country , and it can possess none nobler , happily all survive , with the exception of Keats , Wolfe , and the mightier name of Byron . Keats died at an early age , probably ...
Page 205
... rest , the promised Sabbath , comes . Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world ; and what remains Of this tempestuous state of human things , Is merely as the workings ...
... rest , the promised Sabbath , comes . Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world ; and what remains Of this tempestuous state of human things , Is merely as the workings ...
Page 285
... rest are laid , They meet in mortal shock ; And hark ! the throng , with thundering cry , Shout ' Marmion , Marmion , ' to the sky ; ' De Wilton to the block ! ' Say ye , who preach heaven shall decide , When in the lists two champions ...
... rest are laid , They meet in mortal shock ; And hark ! the throng , with thundering cry , Shout ' Marmion , Marmion , ' to the sky ; ' De Wilton to the block ! ' Say ye , who preach heaven shall decide , When in the lists two champions ...
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