Life in English Literature: An Introduction for Beginners, Volumes 1-3Methuen, 1949 - 535 pages |
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Page 110
... dead , ( Strange dream ! that gives a dead man leave to think , ) And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips , That I reviv'd , and was an emperor . Ah me ! how sweet is love itself possess'd , When but love's shadows are so rich in ...
... dead , ( Strange dream ! that gives a dead man leave to think , ) And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips , That I reviv'd , and was an emperor . Ah me ! how sweet is love itself possess'd , When but love's shadows are so rich in ...
Page 273
... dead or sick . Here are very few families in this part , or in that village , ' pointing at Poplar , ' where half of them are not dead already , and the rest sick . ' Then he pointed to one house . " There they are all dead , ' said he ...
... dead or sick . Here are very few families in this part , or in that village , ' pointing at Poplar , ' where half of them are not dead already , and the rest sick . ' Then he pointed to one house . " There they are all dead , ' said he ...
Page 457
... dead and gone , What Elysium have ye known , Happy field or mossy cavern , Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern ? If we can picture Keats drawing shyly near - to that Tavern in Elysium , we know that the first to bid him welcome there would ...
... dead and gone , What Elysium have ye known , Happy field or mossy cavern , Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern ? If we can picture Keats drawing shyly near - to that Tavern in Elysium , we know that the first to bid him welcome there would ...
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