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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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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The principal picture-galleries in ...

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1903 - 522 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 5 And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall.' Having repeated these lines to ourselves, we sit...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 476 pages
...impart (To fate superior and to fortune's power) Whate'er adorns the stately storied-hall : She, mid the dungeon's solitary gloom, Can dress the Graces in their attic pall ; Bid the green landskip's vernal beauty bloom ; And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall.' One sometimes passes...
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The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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. T. Warton 8"J. Written at an Inn at Henley ' I "O thee, fair freedom ! I retire, •*• From flattery,...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...impart (To Fate superiour, 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 : Bid the green landskip's vernal beauty bloom ; And in bright trophies cloath the twilight wall. 313 Sonnet To the...
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The Three Wartons: A Choice of Their Verse

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1927 - 204 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. VI. TO MR. GRAY Not that her blooms are mark'd with beauty's hue, My rustic Muse her votive chaplet...
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Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, Bridget Orr - History - 1999 - 360 pages
...superior, and to fortune's doom) Whate'er adorns the stately-storied hall: She, mid the dungeon's soli tan- gloom. Can dress the Graces in their Attic pall: Bid...bloom: And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall.i These lines are not simply locodescriptive: they are as much concerned with the poet's social...
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