The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... notes thy once - lov'd Poet fung , Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue . Oh , just beheld , and loft ! admir'd , and mourn'd ! With fofteft manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in every strain ...
... notes thy once - lov'd Poet fung , Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue . Oh , just beheld , and loft ! admir'd , and mourn'd ! With fofteft manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in every strain ...
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... note , It melts , it warbles , in her liquid throat . Of barbarous Tereus fhe complains no more , But fings for pleasure , as for grief before . And still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is filence till the Syren end . How ...
... note , It melts , it warbles , in her liquid throat . Of barbarous Tereus fhe complains no more , But fings for pleasure , as for grief before . And still her graces rise , her airs extend , And all is filence till the Syren end . How ...
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... notes the chorus sweetly raife , And Miriam's timbrel gives new life to praise . The moving founds , like foft delicious wind , That breath'd from paradife , a paffage find , Shed fympathies for odours as they rove , And fan the rifings ...
... notes the chorus sweetly raife , And Miriam's timbrel gives new life to praise . The moving founds , like foft delicious wind , That breath'd from paradife , a paffage find , Shed fympathies for odours as they rove , And fan the rifings ...
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... notes of fancy feem no longer strong , But fweetening clofes fit a private fong . So when the ftorms forfake the fea's command , To break their forces in the winding land , No more their blafts tumultuous rage proclaim , But fweep in ...
... notes of fancy feem no longer strong , But fweetening clofes fit a private fong . So when the ftorms forfake the fea's command , To break their forces in the winding land , No more their blafts tumultuous rage proclaim , But fweep in ...
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... notes he rais'd , with notes he calm'd his mind ; For through the paths of rural life I'll stray , And in his pleafures paint a fhepherd's day . With grateful fentiments , with active will , ` With voice exerted , and enlivening skill ...
... notes he rais'd , with notes he calm'd his mind ; For through the paths of rural life I'll stray , And in his pleafures paint a fhepherd's day . With grateful fentiments , with active will , ` With voice exerted , and enlivening skill ...
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