Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... children , and began early to display precocity of genius . At four he com menced to study Latin at home , and afterwards , under one Pinhorn , a clergyman , who kept the free - school at Southampton , he learned Latin , Hebrew , and ...
... children , and began early to display precocity of genius . At four he com menced to study Latin at home , and afterwards , under one Pinhorn , a clergyman , who kept the free - school at Southampton , he learned Latin , Hebrew , and ...
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... children , peeping out Into the mingling storm , demand their sire With tears of artless innocence . Alas ! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold , Nor friends , nor sacred home . On every nerve The deadly winter seizes , shuts up ...
... children , peeping out Into the mingling storm , demand their sire With tears of artless innocence . Alas ! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold , Nor friends , nor sacred home . On every nerve The deadly winter seizes , shuts up ...
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... child of want , My door is open still : And though my portion is but scant , I give it with good will . Then turn to - night , and freely share Whate'er my cell bestows ; My rushy couch and frugal fare , My blessing and repose . No ...
... child of want , My door is open still : And though my portion is but scant , I give it with good will . Then turn to - night , and freely share Whate'er my cell bestows ; My rushy couch and frugal fare , My blessing and repose . No ...
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... children satisfy the child : Each nobler aim , represt by long control , Now sinks at last , or feebly mans the soul ; While low delights , succeeding fast behind , In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes , where Cesars ...
... children satisfy the child : Each nobler aim , represt by long control , Now sinks at last , or feebly mans the soul ; While low delights , succeeding fast behind , In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes , where Cesars ...
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... children twain ; All ruin'd are for aye , If that you are resolved to let Charles Bawdin die to - day . " " Speak not ... child - like cry ? Saith godly Canynge , " I do weep , That thou so soon must die , And leave thy sons and helpless ...
... children twain ; All ruin'd are for aye , If that you are resolved to let Charles Bawdin die to - day . " " Speak not ... child - like cry ? Saith godly Canynge , " I do weep , That thou so soon must die , And leave thy sons and helpless ...
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