The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fing to Love , Sitting , hopping , fluttering , fing , And pay their tribute from the wing , To fledge the fhafts that idly lie , And yet unfeather'd wait to fly . ' Tis thus , when fpring renews the blood , They meet in every trembling ...
... fing to Love , Sitting , hopping , fluttering , fing , And pay their tribute from the wing , To fledge the fhafts that idly lie , And yet unfeather'd wait to fly . ' Tis thus , when fpring renews the blood , They meet in every trembling ...
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... fing ye , how they drank like Gods , And how they fought like Men . To part the fray , the Graces fly , Who make them foon agree ; Nay , had the Furies felves been nigh , They ftill were three to three . Bacchus appeas'd , rais'd Cupid ...
... fing ye , how they drank like Gods , And how they fought like Men . To part the fray , the Graces fly , Who make them foon agree ; Nay , had the Furies felves been nigh , They ftill were three to three . Bacchus appeas'd , rais'd Cupid ...
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... fing , And antic feats devife ; Some wind and tumble like an ape , And other fome tranfmute their shape In Edwin's wondering eyes . Till one at last , that Robin hight , Renown'd for pinching maids by night , Has bent him up aloof ; And ...
... fing , And antic feats devife ; Some wind and tumble like an ape , And other fome tranfmute their shape In Edwin's wondering eyes . Till one at last , that Robin hight , Renown'd for pinching maids by night , Has bent him up aloof ; And ...
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... fings for pleasure , as for grief before . And still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is filence till the Syren end . How long in coming is my lovely Spring ! And when fhall I , and when the fwallow fing ? Sweet Philomela ...
... fings for pleasure , as for grief before . And still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is filence till the Syren end . How long in coming is my lovely Spring ! And when fhall I , and when the fwallow fing ? Sweet Philomela ...
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... fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself would own thou doft excel In candid arts to play the critic well . Ovid himself might wish to fing the dame Whom Windfor Foreft fees a gliding ftream , On filver feet , with annual ...
... fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself would own thou doft excel In candid arts to play the critic well . Ovid himself might wish to fing the dame Whom Windfor Foreft fees a gliding ftream , On filver feet , with annual ...
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