The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... come abroad , And took a waiter's place . Then Cupid nam'd at every glass A lady of the sky ; While Bacchus fwore he'd drink the lafs And had it bumper - high . Fat Comus toft his brimmers.o'er , And always got the most ; Jocus took ...
... come abroad , And took a waiter's place . Then Cupid nam'd at every glass A lady of the sky ; While Bacchus fwore he'd drink the lafs And had it bumper - high . Fat Comus toft his brimmers.o'er , And always got the most ; Jocus took ...
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... Come prankling o'er the place , But ( trust me , Gentles ! ) never yet Was dight a mafquing half fo neat , Or half fo rich before ; The country lent the sweet perfumes , The fea the pearl , the fky the plumes , The town its filken ftore ...
... Come prankling o'er the place , But ( trust me , Gentles ! ) never yet Was dight a mafquing half fo neat , Or half fo rich before ; The country lent the sweet perfumes , The fea the pearl , the fky the plumes , The town its filken ftore ...
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... come nigh , And with a wish retire . But , now to pleafe the fairy king , Full every deal they laugh and fing , And antic feats devife ; Some wind and tumble like an ape , And other fome tranfmute their shape In Edwin's wondering eyes ...
... come nigh , And with a wish retire . But , now to pleafe the fairy king , Full every deal they laugh and fing , And antic feats devife ; Some wind and tumble like an ape , And other fome tranfmute their shape In Edwin's wondering eyes ...
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... come , we know : " Now has thy keftrell courage fell ; " And fairies , fince a lye you tell , " Are free to work thee woe . " Then Will , who bears the wifpy fire To trail the swains among the mire , The caitiff upward flung ; There ...
... come , we know : " Now has thy keftrell courage fell ; " And fairies , fince a lye you tell , " Are free to work thee woe . " Then Will , who bears the wifpy fire To trail the swains among the mire , The caitiff upward flung ; There ...
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... comes ; to - morrow Beauty's emprefs roves Through walks that winding run within the groves ; She twines the shooting myrtle into bowers , And ties their meeting tops with wreaths of flowers , Then , rais'd fublimely on her eafy throne ...
... comes ; to - morrow Beauty's emprefs roves Through walks that winding run within the groves ; She twines the shooting myrtle into bowers , And ties their meeting tops with wreaths of flowers , Then , rais'd fublimely on her eafy throne ...
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