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My old cousin; or, A peep into Cochin-China, by the author of Romantic facts - Page 85
by Cochin China - 1819
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...deceit. Yet nnrs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear ! Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, •<• And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so-, As Milton, Shakespeare, names that ne'er shall die ! Tho'...
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The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: In Two Volumes. Collated with the ...

William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...deceit. Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die! Though...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...deceit. Yet nurs'd with skill, what daasling fruits appear! Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakespeare, names that ne'er shall die ! Tho'...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 132

1882 - 870 pages
...— " Nursed with skill, what dazzling fruits appear ! E'en now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e er be so, As Hilton, Shakespeare, names that ne'er shall die ! * Ah...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 24

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 386 pages
...deceit. Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear ! Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die! Though...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...Deceit. Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear ! E'en now sagacious Foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die ! Though...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...deceit ; Yet, nurs'dwith skill, what dazzling fruits appear! Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show by, Have shot my fawn, and it will die. Ungentle men ! they cannot thrive Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die I Though...
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A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature: Consisting of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 498 pages
...also subsequent insertions. But those lines which give so original a view of genius in its infancy, A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Sfc. were printed in 1742; and I cannot but think that the far-famed stanzas in Gray's Elegy, where...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...deceit. Yet, nursed with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! Ev'n now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die ! Though...
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Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 2

1831 - 426 pages
...XXVIII. Yet, nursed with skill, what dazzling frniU appear! Even now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton,Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die ! Though...
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