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" In my low cell how cheat the sullen hours ? Vain the complaint ! For Fancy can impart (To Fate superior, and to Fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately-storied hall : She, 'mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the Graces in their Attic pall,... "
The Beauties of Wiltshire: Displayed in Statistical, Historical, and ... - Page 213
by John Britton - 1801
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...impart (To Fate superior, and to Fortune s doom) Whate'er adorns the stately storied hall : She, 'mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the Graces...Attic pall ; Bid the green landscape's vernal beauty gloom ; And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. To Mr. Gray. NOT that her blooms are mark'd...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 34

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 446 pages
...impart (To fate superior, and to Fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately storied hall : She, mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the graces...; And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. TO MH. GRAY. At curfew time, beneath the dark green yew, Thy pensive genius strikes the moral strings...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 326 pages
...impart (To Fate superior, and to Fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately storied hall : She, mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the Graces...; And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. TO MR. GRAY. NOT that her blooms are mark'd with beauty's hue, My rustic Muse her votive chaplet brings...
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The London Magazine, Volume 8

1823 - 696 pages
...impart (To Fate superior, and to Fortune's doom) Whate'cr adorns the stately-storied hall : She, mid l Ami in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall'. Having repeated these lines to ourselves, we sit...
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Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on ...

William Hazlitt - Art - 1824 - 210 pages
...stately-storied ball : . She, mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, •, Can dress tbe Graces in their Atlic pall : Bid the green landscape's vernal beauty bloom...', And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. Having repeated these lines to ourselves, we sit quietly down in our chairs to con over our task, abstract...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...impart (To fate superior, and to fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately-storied hall : She, mid mon'd, but 'twas urg'd, that he Was chief already of another company. Hales set by him landskip's vernal beauty bloom; And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. VL TO Mil. GRAY. Not...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...impart (To Fate superior and to Fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately-storied hall : She, 'mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the Graces...bloom, And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. THOMAS WARTON. ON KINO ARTHUR'S ROUND-TABLE, AT WINCHESTER. WHERE Venta's Norman castle still uprears...
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A Brief History of Old and New Sarum

Peter Hall - Old Sarum (Extinct city) - 1834 - 56 pages
...gorgeous tow'rs, In my low cell how cheat the sullen hours ? Vain the complaint : for fancy can impart (To fate superior, and to fortune's doom) Whate'er...bloom, And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall ! The Editor has now only to discharge the agreeable duty of returning his sincere acknowledgments...
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The book of sonnets, ed by A.M. Woodford

A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...impart (To Fate superior and to Fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately-storied hall: She, 'mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the Graces...pall; Bid the green landscape's vernal beauty bloom, TO THE RIVER LODON. AH ! what a weary race my feet have run, Since first I trod thy banks with alders...
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Criticisms on Art: and Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England

William Hazlitt - Art - 1843 - 450 pages
...impart (To Fate superior, and to Fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately-storied hall : She, 'mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the Graces...bloom, And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. Having repeated these lines to ourselves, we sit quietly down in our chairs to con over our task, abstract...
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