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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... fruits of happiness ! Thou gentle dawning of a bright success ! Thou good preparative , without which our joy Does work ... fruit that does delight The taste itself less than the smell and sight . Fruition ' more deceitful is Than thou ...
... fruits of happiness ! Thou gentle dawning of a bright success ! Thou good preparative , without which our joy Does work ... fruit that does delight The taste itself less than the smell and sight . Fruition ' more deceitful is Than thou ...
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... fruit As the kind hospitable woods provide . They left me then , when the gray - hooded Even , Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed , With everlasting oil , to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This is the place , as ...
... fruit As the kind hospitable woods provide . They left me then , when the gray - hooded Even , Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed , With everlasting oil , to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This is the place , as ...
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... fruit , El . Br . Unmuffle , ye faint stars ; and thou , fair From the rash hand of bold Incontinence . Moon , That wont'st to love the traveller's benison , Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud , And disinherit Chaos , that ...
... fruit , El . Br . Unmuffle , ye faint stars ; and thou , fair From the rash hand of bold Incontinence . Moon , That wont'st to love the traveller's benison , Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud , And disinherit Chaos , that ...
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... fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , heavenly Muse , that on the secret top Of ...
... fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , heavenly Muse , that on the secret top Of ...
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... fruit , Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue , Appear'd , with gay enamell'd colors mix'd : On which the Sun more glad impress'd his beams Than in fair evening cloud , or humid bow , When God hath shower'd the earth ; so lovely ...
... fruit , Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue , Appear'd , with gay enamell'd colors mix'd : On which the Sun more glad impress'd his beams Than in fair evening cloud , or humid bow , When God hath shower'd the earth ; so lovely ...
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