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" Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart... "
A manual of English prosody - Page 49
by Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...affrighted ravens sail; (n) On dreary Arvon's shore " Thefamish'd Eagle screams, and passes by (o). " Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, " Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes (p), " Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, " Ye died amidst your dying country's cries " No...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...and paffes by. Dear loft companions of my tuneful art, Ц Dear, as the light that vifits thefe'fad eyes, Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidft your dying country's cries— г No more I weep. They do not fleep. On yonder clifis, a griefly...
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The Anti-Gallican, Or, Standard of British Loyalty, Religion, and ..., Volume 1

1803 - 390 pages
...Oa Alexandria's shore. Yet cease to weep : they do not sleep — Through the bright sky, a heavenly band I see them sit, they linger yet, Avengers of their native land. But NELSO.N still is mine, Who shook the Libyan coast; A thousand heroes guide my navy's line, The...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 18

1804 - 452 pages
...out of Heaven's high way:" and Pope, " Far as the solar walk or milky way."— Gray, in his Bard, " Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes: Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart." Otway makes Priuli exclaim, to his daughter, that she is "Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life....
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...pale : " Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; " The famish'd Eagle screams, and passes by o. " Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, " Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes p, n On dreary Arvon's shore The shores of Caernarvonshire opposite to the isle of Anglesey. o The...
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The Anti-Gallican ; Or Standard of British Loyalty, Religion and Liberty ...

1904 - 518 pages
...On Alexandria's shoie. Yet cease to weep : they do not sleep — Through ihe bright sky, a heavenly band I see them sit, they linger yet, Avengers of their native land. But NELSON still is mine, Who shook the Libyan coast ; A thousand heroes guide my navy's line, The...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 7

Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...paffes by. * Dear luft companions of my tuneful art, ' ^ Dear, as the light that vifits thefe f;:d eyes, * Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, • Ye died amidft your dying country's cries— ' No more I weep. They do not flccp. • On yonder cliffs, a griefly...
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Remarks critical, conjectural, and explanatory, upon ..., Volume 1; Volume 22

E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 pages
...conjunction, and adopt that mode of expression which is called the phraseology of Shakspeares age: " Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, " Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart." Gray. The Bard. 67. " The ass in compound with the major part of your syllables" I suppose there is...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...sail, ' The famisli'd eaglet screams and passes by. ' Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, * DearJ as the light that visits these sad eyes, * Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, 1 Ye dy'd amidst your dying country's cries...... * Ho more I -weep. They do not sleep; ' On yonder...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pages
...elegantly, though copied from Dryden, ".Far as the SOLAR WAI.K, or milky way." ., Gray has in his " Bard" " Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart." Gray himself points out the imitation in Shakspeare, of the latter image ; but it is curious to observe...
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