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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... strength and riches of their state ; The powder , patches , and the pins , The ribbons , jewels , and the rings , The lace , the paint , and warlike things , That make up all their magazines ; If I should tell the politic arts To take ...
... strength and riches of their state ; The powder , patches , and the pins , The ribbons , jewels , and the rings , The lace , the paint , and warlike things , That make up all their magazines ; If I should tell the politic arts To take ...
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... strength express , Arm'd , when they themselves undress , Cap - a - pie with nakedness ? V. AGE . OFT am I by the women told , Poor Anacreon ! thou grow'st old : Look how thy hairs are falling all ; Poor Anacreon , how they fall ...
... strength express , Arm'd , when they themselves undress , Cap - a - pie with nakedness ? V. AGE . OFT am I by the women told , Poor Anacreon ! thou grow'st old : Look how thy hairs are falling all ; Poor Anacreon , how they fall ...
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... secure , I cannot be , that I should fear to change it.- Eye me , blest Providence , and square my trial To my proportion'd strength - Shepherd , lead on . [ Exeunt ] Enter The TWO BROTHERS . Of dragon - watch , COMUS . $ 23.
... secure , I cannot be , that I should fear to change it.- Eye me , blest Providence , and square my trial To my proportion'd strength - Shepherd , lead on . [ Exeunt ] Enter The TWO BROTHERS . Of dragon - watch , COMUS . $ 23.
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... strength , Unless the strength of Heaven , if you mean that ? Sec . Br . El . Br . I mean that too , but yet a hidden strength , Which , if Heaven gave it , may be term'd her own ; ' Tis Chastity , my brother , Chastity : She , that has ...
... strength , Unless the strength of Heaven , if you mean that ? Sec . Br . El . Br . I mean that too , but yet a hidden strength , Which , if Heaven gave it , may be term'd her own ; ' Tis Chastity , my brother , Chastity : She , that has ...
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... strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail , In arms not worse , in foresight much advanc'd , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , Irreconcilable to our grand foe , Who now ...
... strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail , In arms not worse , in foresight much advanc'd , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , Irreconcilable to our grand foe , Who now ...
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