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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... spirits , that did presume A body's privilege to assume , Vanish again invisibly , And bodies gain again their visibility . All the world's bravery , that delights our eyes , Is but thy several liveries ; Thou the rich dye on them ...
... spirits , that did presume A body's privilege to assume , Vanish again invisibly , And bodies gain again their visibility . All the world's bravery , that delights our eyes , Is but thy several liveries ; Thou the rich dye on them ...
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... spirits waste . Hope ! Fortune's cheating lottery ! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be ; Fond archer , Hope ! who tak'st thy aim so far , That still or short or wide thine arrows are ! Thin , empty cloud , which th ' eye ...
... spirits waste . Hope ! Fortune's cheating lottery ! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be ; Fond archer , Hope ! who tak'st thy aim so far , That still or short or wide thine arrows are ! Thin , empty cloud , which th ' eye ...
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... SPIRIT descends or enters . BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air , Above the smoke and stir of this dim ...
... SPIRIT descends or enters . BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air , Above the smoke and stir of this dim ...
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... spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . 220 SWEET Echo , sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the violet - embroider'd vale , Where the lovelorn ...
... spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . 220 SWEET Echo , sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the violet - embroider'd vale , Where the lovelorn ...
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... spirits of balm and fragrant syrops mix'd ; Not that nepenthes , which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove - born Helena , 620 Is of such power to stir up joy as this , To life so friendly , or so cool to thirst . Why should you be ...
... spirits of balm and fragrant syrops mix'd ; Not that nepenthes , which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove - born Helena , 620 Is of such power to stir up joy as this , To life so friendly , or so cool to thirst . Why should you be ...
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