The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... pleasures wait behind , Afide , a thousand arrows lie , But all unfeather'd , wait to fly . When they met , the dame and boy , Dancing Graces , idle joy , Wanton fmiles , and airy play Confpir'd to make the fcene be gay ; Love pair'd ...
... pleasures wait behind , Afide , a thousand arrows lie , But all unfeather'd , wait to fly . When they met , the dame and boy , Dancing Graces , idle joy , Wanton fmiles , and airy play Confpir'd to make the fcene be gay ; Love pair'd ...
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... pleasure of thy chaunce ; " Whilst I with Mab , my partner , daunce , " Be little Mable thine . " He spoke , and all a fudden there Light mufic floats in wanton air ; The monarch leads the queen : The reft their fairy partners found ...
... pleasure of thy chaunce ; " Whilst I with Mab , my partner , daunce , " Be little Mable thine . " He spoke , and all a fudden there Light mufic floats in wanton air ; The monarch leads the queen : The reft their fairy partners found ...
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... pleasurable rites : Here crouds in measure lightly - decent rove ; Or feek by pairs the covert of the grove , Where meeting greens for arbours arch above , And mingling flowrets ftrow the fcenes of love , Here dancing Ceres shakes her ...
... pleasurable rites : Here crouds in measure lightly - decent rove ; Or feek by pairs the covert of the grove , Where meeting greens for arbours arch above , And mingling flowrets ftrow the fcenes of love , Here dancing Ceres shakes her ...
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... pleasure reigns ; The life of Beauty fills the rural scenes ; Ev'n Love ( if Fame the truth of Love declare ) Drew first the breathings of a rural air . Some pleafing meadow pregnant Beauty preft , She laid her infant on its flowery ...
... pleasure reigns ; The life of Beauty fills the rural scenes ; Ev'n Love ( if Fame the truth of Love declare ) Drew first the breathings of a rural air . Some pleafing meadow pregnant Beauty preft , She laid her infant on its flowery ...
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... 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 , ceafe : -Or ...
... 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 , ceafe : -Or ...
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