The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... strain ; Dear to the Mufe , to Harley dear - in vain ! For him thou oft haft bid the world attend , Fond to forget the statesman in the friend : For Swift and him , defpis'd the farce of state , The fober follies of the wife and great ...
... strain ; Dear to the Mufe , to Harley dear - in vain ! For him thou oft haft bid the world attend , Fond to forget the statesman in the friend : For Swift and him , defpis'd the farce of state , The fober follies of the wife and great ...
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... strain , And from the poplar charms the listening plain , We fancy love expreft at every note , It melts , it warbles , in her liquid throat . Of barbarous Tereus fhe complains no more , But fings for pleasure , as for grief before ...
... strain , And from the poplar charms the listening plain , We fancy love expreft at every note , It melts , it warbles , in her liquid throat . Of barbarous Tereus fhe complains no more , But fings for pleasure , as for grief before ...
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... strains . Indulgent nurse of every tender gale , Parent of flowerets , old Arcadia , hail ! Here in the cool my limbs at ease I spread , Here let thy poplars whifper o'er my head , Still flide thy waters foft among the trees ; Thy ...
... strains . Indulgent nurse of every tender gale , Parent of flowerets , old Arcadia , hail ! Here in the cool my limbs at ease I spread , Here let thy poplars whifper o'er my head , Still flide thy waters foft among the trees ; Thy ...
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... road , Some call to march , and fome to lift the load ; They strain , they labour with inceffant pains , Prefs'd by the cumbrous weight of single grains . The The Flies ftruck filent gaze with wonder down : The 62 PARNELL'S POEMS .
... road , Some call to march , and fome to lift the load ; They strain , they labour with inceffant pains , Prefs'd by the cumbrous weight of single grains . The The Flies ftruck filent gaze with wonder down : The 62 PARNELL'S POEMS .
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... strain ; Pray take your mortal Bards again . - Come , bind the victim , there he lies , And here between his numerous eyes This venerable duft I lay , From manufcripts juft fwept away . The goblet in my hand I take , ( For the libation ...
... strain ; Pray take your mortal Bards again . - Come , bind the victim , there he lies , And here between his numerous eyes This venerable duft I lay , From manufcripts juft fwept away . The goblet in my hand I take , ( For the libation ...
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