The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... a manly frame , And ftole from Jove his animating flame . The fly contrivance o'er Olympus.ran , When thus the Monarch of the Stars began . B 3 Overs'd O vers'd in arts ! whofe daring thoughts afpire , I5 ] HES I 0 D: ...
... a manly frame , And ftole from Jove his animating flame . The fly contrivance o'er Olympus.ran , When thus the Monarch of the Stars began . B 3 Overs'd O vers'd in arts ! whofe daring thoughts afpire , I5 ] HES I 0 D: ...
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... flames , from orient rays of light , The richest luftre makes her purple bright ; And she to - morrow weds ; the fporting gale Unties her zone , fhe burfts the verdant veil ; Through all her fweets the rifling lover flies , And as he ...
... flames , from orient rays of light , The richest luftre makes her purple bright ; And she to - morrow weds ; the fporting gale Unties her zone , fhe burfts the verdant veil ; Through all her fweets the rifling lover flies , And as he ...
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... flames decay , My tuneful Phoebus flies averfe away . His own Amycle thus , as stories run , But once was filent , and that once undone . Let thofe love now , who never lov'd beforez Let thofe who always lov'd , now love the more ...
... flames decay , My tuneful Phoebus flies averfe away . His own Amycle thus , as stories run , But once was filent , and that once undone . Let thofe love now , who never lov'd beforez Let thofe who always lov'd , now love the more ...
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... flame , Stood foremost glittering in the post of fame ; When , in his liver ftruck , the javelin hung , The Mouse fell thundering , and the target rung ; Prone to the ground , he finks his closing eye , And foil'd in duft his lovely ...
... flame , Stood foremost glittering in the post of fame ; When , in his liver ftruck , the javelin hung , The Mouse fell thundering , and the target rung ; Prone to the ground , he finks his closing eye , And foil'd in duft his lovely ...
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... flame the glories of Belinda's hair , Made by thy Muse the envy of the Fair ! Lefs fhone the treffes Ægypt's princefs wore , Which fweet Callimachus fo fung before . Here courtly treffes fet the world at odds , Belles war with Beaux ...
... flame the glories of Belinda's hair , Made by thy Muse the envy of the Fair ! Lefs fhone the treffes Ægypt's princefs wore , Which fweet Callimachus fo fung before . Here courtly treffes fet the world at odds , Belles war with Beaux ...
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