The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Flow'd to the feet , to copy Venus ' air , When Venus ' ftatues have a robe to wear . The new - fprung creature , finifh'd thus for harms , Adjusts her habit , practises her charms , With blushes glows , or fhines with lively smiles ...
... Flow'd to the feet , to copy Venus ' air , When Venus ' ftatues have a robe to wear . The new - fprung creature , finifh'd thus for harms , Adjusts her habit , practises her charms , With blushes glows , or fhines with lively smiles ...
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... Flow from the rock , my flax ! and swiftly flow , Pursue thy thread ; the spindle runs below . A creature fond and changing , fair and vain , The creature woman , rifes now to reign . New beauty blooms , a beauty form'd to fly ; New ...
... Flow from the rock , my flax ! and swiftly flow , Pursue thy thread ; the spindle runs below . A creature fond and changing , fair and vain , The creature woman , rifes now to reign . New beauty blooms , a beauty form'd to fly ; New ...
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... flow , The sky grew bright , and ( if his verse be true ) The Mufes came to give the laurel too . But what avail'd the verdant prize of wit , If Love swore vengeance for the tales he writ ? Ye Fair offended , hear your friend relate ...
... flow , The sky grew bright , and ( if his verse be true ) The Mufes came to give the laurel too . But what avail'd the verdant prize of wit , If Love swore vengeance for the tales he writ ? Ye Fair offended , hear your friend relate ...
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... flow . Jocus took Comus ' rofy crown , And gayly wore the prize , And thrice , in mirth , he push'd him down , As thrice he strave to rife . Then Cupid fought the myrtle grove , Where Venus did recline ; And Venus clofe embracing Love ...
... flow . Jocus took Comus ' rofy crown , And gayly wore the prize , And thrice , in mirth , he push'd him down , As thrice he strave to rife . Then Cupid fought the myrtle grove , Where Venus did recline ; And Venus clofe embracing Love ...
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... flow , His locks he rends , his trembling feet he rears , Thick beats his heart with unaccuftora'd fears ; He fighs , and , chill'd with danger , longs for fhore : His tail extended forms a fruitless oar , Half drench'd in liquid death ...
... flow , His locks he rends , his trembling feet he rears , Thick beats his heart with unaccuftora'd fears ; He fighs , and , chill'd with danger , longs for fhore : His tail extended forms a fruitless oar , Half drench'd in liquid death ...
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