The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fancy wife ) Have left on long record of woman's rife , What morals teach it , and what fables hide , What author wrote it , how that author dy'd , All these.I fing . In Greece they fram'd the tale ( In Greece ' twas thought a woman ...
... fancy wife ) Have left on long record of woman's rife , What morals teach it , and what fables hide , What author wrote it , how that author dy'd , All these.I fing . In Greece they fram'd the tale ( In Greece ' twas thought a woman ...
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... fancy , highly - crefted pride , Strong fovereign will , and fome defire to chide ; For which , an eloquence , that aims to vex , With native tropes of anger , arms the fex . Minerva , skilful goddefs , train'd the maid To twirle the ...
... fancy , highly - crefted pride , Strong fovereign will , and fome defire to chide ; For which , an eloquence , that aims to vex , With native tropes of anger , arms the fex . Minerva , skilful goddefs , train'd the maid To twirle the ...
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... 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 . And still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is ...
... 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 . And still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is ...
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... fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the 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 ...
... fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the 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 ...
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... fancy rove , Where flutes and innocence amuse the grove : The native Bard , that on Sicilian plains Firft fung the lowly manners of the fwains ; Or Maro's Mufe , that in the fairest light Paints rural prospects and the charms of fight ...
... fancy rove , Where flutes and innocence amuse the grove : The native Bard , that on Sicilian plains Firft fung the lowly manners of the fwains ; Or Maro's Mufe , that in the fairest light Paints rural prospects and the charms of fight ...
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