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THE PRELUDE OR , GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEM We sauntered , played , or rioted ; we talked. ADVERTISEMENT [ By the Editor of 1850 ] The following poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799 , and completed ...
THE PRELUDE OR , GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEM We sauntered , played , or rioted ; we talked. ADVERTISEMENT [ By the Editor of 1850 ] The following poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799 , and completed ...
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... soli- tude More active even than ' best society ' Society made sweet as solitude By silent inobtrusive sympathies , And gentle agitations of the mind From manifold distinctions , difference 19 - Perceived in things , where , to the ...
... soli- tude More active even than ' best society ' Society made sweet as solitude By silent inobtrusive sympathies , And gentle agitations of the mind From manifold distinctions , difference 19 - Perceived in things , where , to the ...
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Hence Genius , born to thrive by inter- change Of peace and excitation , finds in her His best and purest friend ; from her re- ceives That energy by which he seeks the truth , From her that happy stillness of the mind Which fits him to ...
Hence Genius , born to thrive by inter- change Of peace and excitation , finds in her His best and purest friend ; from her re- ceives That energy by which he seeks the truth , From her that happy stillness of the mind Which fits him to ...
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Contents
Medieval Lyrics | 1 |
The Franklins Tale | 16 |
The wordes of the Host to the Phisicien | 28 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry |
| Editors | Howard Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp |
| Contributor | Margaret Farrand Thorp |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1947 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1232 pages |
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