The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... hear thy Parnell in his living lays : Who , careless now , of intereft , fame , or 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 ...
... hear thy Parnell in his living lays : Who , careless now , of intereft , fame , or 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 ...
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... hear your friend relate What heavy judgment prov'd the writer's 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 ...
... hear your friend relate What heavy judgment prov'd the writer's 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 ...
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... hear a Cupid loudly laughing by ; He wheels his arrow with infulting hand , And thus infcribes the moral on the fand . " Here Hefiod lies : ye future Bards , beware " How far your moral tales incense the Fair . " Unlov'd , unloving ...
... hear a Cupid loudly laughing by ; He wheels his arrow with infulting hand , And thus infcribes the moral on the fand . " Here Hefiod lies : ye future Bards , beware " How far your moral tales incense the Fair . " Unlov'd , unloving ...
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... hear This our inftru & tive fong ; For though fuch friendships may be dear , ·· They can't continue long . A FAIRY TALE . IN THE ANCIENT ENGLISH STILE . IN Britain's ifle , and Arthur's days , When midnight Fairies daunc'd the maze ...
... hear This our inftru & tive fong ; For though fuch friendships may be dear , ·· They can't continue long . A FAIRY TALE . IN THE ANCIENT ENGLISH STILE . IN Britain's ifle , and Arthur's days , When midnight Fairies daunc'd the maze ...
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... hear , And proudly fwelling yet perplex'd appear : Much they refent , yet much their monarch blame , Who , rifing , fpoke to clear his tainted fame : O friends , I never forc'd the Moufe to death , Nor faw the gafping of his latest ...
... hear , And proudly fwelling yet perplex'd appear : Much they refent , yet much their monarch blame , Who , rifing , fpoke to clear his tainted fame : O friends , I never forc'd the Moufe to death , Nor faw the gafping of his latest ...
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