The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... sweet confusing blush , the fecret wink , The gentle fwimming walk , the courteous fink ; The ftare for ftrangeness fit , for fcorn the frown ; Fer decent yielding , looks declining down ; The practis'd languish , where well - feign'd ...
... sweet confusing blush , the fecret wink , The gentle fwimming walk , the courteous fink ; The ftare for ftrangeness fit , for fcorn the frown ; Fer decent yielding , looks declining down ; The practis'd languish , where well - feign'd ...
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... sweet perfumes , The fea the pearl , the fky the plumes , The town its filken ftore . Now whilft he gaz'd , a gallant drest In flaunting robes above the rest , With awful accent cry'd ; What mortal of a wretched mind , Whofe fighs ...
... sweet perfumes , The fea the pearl , the fky the plumes , The town its filken ftore . Now whilft he gaz'd , a gallant drest In flaunting robes above the rest , With awful accent cry'd ; What mortal of a wretched mind , Whofe fighs ...
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... Sweet Philomela , ceafe : -Or here I fit , And filent lofe my rapturous hour of wit : ' Tis gone , the fit retires , the flames decay , My tuneful Phoebus flies averfe away . His own Amycle thus , as stories run , But once was filent ...
... Sweet Philomela , ceafe : -Or here I fit , And filent lofe my rapturous hour of wit : ' Tis gone , the fit retires , the flames decay , My tuneful Phoebus flies averfe away . His own Amycle thus , as stories run , But once was filent ...
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... Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented head ; What ...
... Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented head ; What ...
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... sweet retreat ; Might I thus my foul employ , With fense of gratitude and joy : Rais'd as ancient prophets were , In heavenly vision , praise , and prayer ; Pleafing all men , hurting none , Pleas'd and blefs'd with God alone : Then ...
... sweet retreat ; Might I thus my foul employ , With fense of gratitude and joy : Rais'd as ancient prophets were , In heavenly vision , praise , and prayer ; Pleafing all men , hurting none , Pleas'd and blefs'd with God alone : Then ...
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