The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fate , Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or , deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure , if aught below the seats divine Can touch immortals , ' tis a foul like thine : B 2 A ...
... fate , Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or , deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure , if aught below the seats divine Can touch immortals , ' tis a foul like thine : B 2 A ...
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... Fates explore , Then fix the loom , their fingers nimbly weave , And thus their toil prophetic fongs deceive . Flow from the rock , my flax ! and swiftly flow , Pursue thy thread ; the spindle runs below . A creature fond and changing ...
... Fates explore , Then fix the loom , their fingers nimbly weave , And thus their toil prophetic fongs deceive . Flow from the rock , my flax ! and swiftly flow , Pursue thy thread ; the spindle runs below . A creature fond and changing ...
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... fate , Though when it happen'd no relation clears , Tis thought in five , or five and twenty years . Where , dark and filent , with a twisted fhade The neighouring woods a native arbour made , There oft a tender pair , for amorous play ...
... fate , Though when it happen'd no relation clears , Tis thought in five , or five and twenty years . Where , dark and filent , with a twisted fhade The neighouring woods a native arbour made , There oft a tender pair , for amorous play ...
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... fate to bleed ; " Without his quiver , Cupid caus'd the deed : " He judg'd this turn of malice justly due , " And Hefiod dy'd for joys he never knew . " SONG . G. SON WHEN thy beauty appears In its graces and THE RISE OF WOMAN . 13.
... fate to bleed ; " Without his quiver , Cupid caus'd the deed : " He judg'd this turn of malice justly due , " And Hefiod dy'd for joys he never knew . " SONG . G. SON WHEN thy beauty appears In its graces and THE RISE OF WOMAN . 13.
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... the favourite fools of chance " By fortune feem defign'd ; " Virtue can gain the odds of fate , " And from itself shake off the weight " Upon th ' unworthy mind . " 1 PER . t THE VIGIL OF VENUS . Written in the time 28 PARNELL'S POEMS ..
... the favourite fools of chance " By fortune feem defign'd ; " Virtue can gain the odds of fate , " And from itself shake off the weight " Upon th ' unworthy mind . " 1 PER . t THE VIGIL OF VENUS . Written in the time 28 PARNELL'S POEMS ..
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