The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... the parting ray , Eyes the calm fun - set of thy various day ; Through Fortune's cloud one truly great can fee , Nor fears to tell , that Mortimer is he . Sept. 25 , 1721 . A. POPE . HESIOD : HES I 0 D : OR , THE RISE OF DEDICATION .
... the parting ray , Eyes the calm fun - set of thy various day ; Through Fortune's cloud one truly great can fee , Nor fears to tell , that Mortimer is he . Sept. 25 , 1721 . A. POPE . HESIOD : HES I 0 D : OR , THE RISE OF DEDICATION .
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... RISE OF WOMAN . WHAT antient times ( thofe times we fancy wife ) Have left on long record of woman's rife , What morals teach it , and what fables hide , What author wrote it , how that author dy'd , All these.I fing . In Greece they ...
... RISE OF WOMAN . WHAT antient times ( thofe times we fancy wife ) Have left on long record of woman's rife , What morals teach it , and what fables hide , What author wrote it , how that author dy'd , All these.I fing . In Greece they ...
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... The pleasing colours of the art of praise ; And wit , to scandal exquifitely prone , Which frets another's fpleen to cure its own . B 4 Thofe Thofe facred Virgins whom the Bards revere , Tun'd all THE RISE OF WOMAN .
... The pleasing colours of the art of praise ; And wit , to scandal exquifitely prone , Which frets another's fpleen to cure its own . B 4 Thofe Thofe facred Virgins whom the Bards revere , Tun'd all THE RISE OF WOMAN .
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... care , Fond to relieve , or refolute to fhare : Happy the man whom thus his ftars advance ! The curfe is general , but the bleffing chance . Thus Thus fung the Sifters , while the Gods admire Their THE RISE OF WOMAN .
... care , Fond to relieve , or refolute to fhare : Happy the man whom thus his ftars advance ! The curfe is general , but the bleffing chance . Thus Thus fung the Sifters , while the Gods admire Their THE RISE OF WOMAN .
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... intrigues , Commenc'd , or finish'd , with the breach of leagues ; The mean defigns of well - diffembled love ; The fordid matches never join'd above ; Abroad Abroad the labour , and at home the noise , THE RISE OF WOMAN .
... intrigues , Commenc'd , or finish'd , with the breach of leagues ; The mean defigns of well - diffembled love ; The fordid matches never join'd above ; Abroad Abroad the labour , and at home the noise , THE RISE OF WOMAN .
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