The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... close the web with art , An ufeful gift ; but what profufe expence , What world of fashions , took its rife from hence ! Young Hermes next , a close contriving God , Her brows encircled with his ferpent rod ; Then plots and fair excuses ...
... close the web with art , An ufeful gift ; but what profufe expence , What world of fashions , took its rife from hence ! Young Hermes next , a close contriving God , Her brows encircled with his ferpent rod ; Then plots and fair excuses ...
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... close indented comb To call the locks , that lightly wander , home ; And chief , the mirrour , where the ravish'd maid Beholds and loves her own reflected shade , Fair Flora lent her ftores ; the purpled Hours Confin'd her treffes with ...
... close indented comb To call the locks , that lightly wander , home ; And chief , the mirrour , where the ravish'd maid Beholds and loves her own reflected shade , Fair Flora lent her ftores ; the purpled Hours Confin'd her treffes with ...
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... close of eve he leaves his home , And wends to find the ruin'd dome . All on the gloomy plain . As there he bides , it fo befell , The wind came ruftling down a dell , A fhaking feiz'd the wall ; Up fpring the tapers as before , The ...
... close of eve he leaves his home , And wends to find the ruin'd dome . All on the gloomy plain . As there he bides , it fo befell , The wind came ruftling down a dell , A fhaking feiz'd the wall ; Up fpring the tapers as before , The ...
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... close ; Green were the beets about their fhoulders laid , And green the colewort , which the target made . Form'd of the vary'd fhells the waters yield , Their gloffy helmets glisten'd o'er the fields : And tapering fea - reeds for the ...
... close ; Green were the beets about their fhoulders laid , And green the colewort , which the target made . Form'd of the vary'd fhells the waters yield , Their gloffy helmets glisten'd o'er the fields : And tapering fea - reeds for the ...
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... close the scene , The facred altar fhould be clean . Oh had I Shadwell's fecond bays , Or , Tate ! thy pert and humble lays ! ( Ye pair , forgive me , when I vow I never mifs'd your works till now ) I'd tear the leaves to wipe the ...
... close the scene , The facred altar fhould be clean . Oh had I Shadwell's fecond bays , Or , Tate ! thy pert and humble lays ! ( Ye pair , forgive me , when I vow I never mifs'd your works till now ) I'd tear the leaves to wipe the ...
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