The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Still hear thy Parnell in his living lays : Who , careless now , of intereft , fame , or fate , Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or , deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure ...
... Still hear thy Parnell in his living lays : Who , careless now , of intereft , fame , or fate , Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or , deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure ...
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... still to feel . He faid , and Vulcan ftrait the Sire commands , To temper mortar with ætherial hands ; In fuch a fhape to mold a rifing fair , As virgin goddeffes are proud to wear ; To make her eyes with diamond - water shine , And ...
... still to feel . He faid , and Vulcan ftrait the Sire commands , To temper mortar with ætherial hands ; In fuch a fhape to mold a rifing fair , As virgin goddeffes are proud to wear ; To make her eyes with diamond - water shine , And ...
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... Still an angel appear to each lover befide , But ftill be a woman to you . SON G. THYRSIS , a young and amorous fwain , Saw two , the beauties of the plain , Who both his heart fubdue : Gay Cælia's eyes were dazzling fair , Sabina's ...
... Still an angel appear to each lover befide , But ftill be a woman to you . SON G. THYRSIS , a young and amorous fwain , Saw two , the beauties of the plain , Who both his heart fubdue : Gay Cælia's eyes were dazzling fair , Sabina's ...
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... still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is filence till the Syren end . How long in coming is my lovely Spring ! And when fhall I , and when the fwallow fing ? Sweet Philomela , ceafe : -Or here I fit , And filent lofe my ...
... still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is filence till the Syren end . How long in coming is my lovely Spring ! And when fhall I , and when the fwallow fing ? Sweet Philomela , ceafe : -Or here I fit , And filent lofe my ...
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... Still flide thy waters foft among the trees ; Thy afpins quiver in a breathing breeze , Smile all thy vallies in eternal spring , Be hush'd , ye winds ! while Pope and Virgil fing . In English lays , and all fublimely great , Thy Homer ...
... Still flide thy waters foft among the trees ; Thy afpins quiver in a breathing breeze , Smile all thy vallies in eternal spring , Be hush'd , ye winds ! while Pope and Virgil fing . In English lays , and all fublimely great , Thy Homer ...
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