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 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act. V. Sc, 4. As the foregoing distinction between intense and moderate holds... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 1 better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. O, thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 500 pages
...in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes, Two Gentlemen of Verona^ Act r. Sc. 4. As the foregoing distinction between intense and .moderate holds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record ' my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing ruinous,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 452 pages
...This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can 1 sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record f my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 424 pages
...in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented wood?, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone, unseen .of any, And to the nightingale's...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes. Two Gentlemen of rerona, J3ct V. Sc. 4. Another final cause of custom will be highly relished by every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...this I endure for thee ! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Another Part of the Forest. Enter VALENTINE. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes 7. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than nourishing peopled towns. Here 1 can sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes circumstanced, he made a treaty of alliance with Amasis, king of ^Egypt, which was cemented by various... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns: Here can I sit alone, unseen oi any, Ami, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record* my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, I,eave not the mansion so Inn;-, tenantless ; Lest, growing... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1824 - 450 pages
...man '. Tins shadowy desert, unfrequented, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Her* nan I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my dUtresses and record my woes." The character is taken from Shakspeare's play of " The Two Gentlemen... | |
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