Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin A. Hart, Carey & Hart, 1850 - 807 pages |
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... breast . Margarita first of all ; But when awhile the wanton maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place ( Though loth and ...
... breast . Margarita first of all ; But when awhile the wanton maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place ( Though loth and ...
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... breast ( Meaning nothing less than rest ) Acme lean'd her loving head , Thus the pleas'd Septimius said : My dearest Acme , if I be Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan ...
... breast ( Meaning nothing less than rest ) Acme lean'd her loving head , Thus the pleas'd Septimius said : My dearest Acme , if I be Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan ...
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... breast - plate , and a stone besides Imagin'd rather oft than elsewhere seen , That stone , or like to that , which here below Philosophers in vain so long have sought , In vain , though by their powerful art they bind Volatile Hermes ...
... breast - plate , and a stone besides Imagin'd rather oft than elsewhere seen , That stone , or like to that , which here below Philosophers in vain so long have sought , In vain , though by their powerful art they bind Volatile Hermes ...
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... breast Naked met his , under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid : he in delight Both of her beauty , and submissive charms , Smil'd with superior love , as Jupiter On Juno smiles , when he impregns the clouds That shed May ...
... breast Naked met his , under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid : he in delight Both of her beauty , and submissive charms , Smil'd with superior love , as Jupiter On Juno smiles , when he impregns the clouds That shed May ...
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... breast Stand ready to receive them , if they like Our overture , and turn not back perverse : But that I doubt ; however witness Heaven ! Heaven , witness thou anon ! while we discharge Freely our part : ye , who appointed stand , Do as ...
... breast Stand ready to receive them , if they like Our overture , and turn not back perverse : But that I doubt ; however witness Heaven ! Heaven , witness thou anon ! while we discharge Freely our part : ye , who appointed stand , Do as ...
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