Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical NoticesThomas Wardle, 1846 - 807 pages |
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... 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 desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him tear ...
... 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 desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him tear ...
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... head : And cloudy Care has often took A gentle beamy smile , reflected from thy look . At thy appearance , Fear itself grows bold ; Thy sun - shine melts away his cold . Encouraged at the sight of thee , nels slide . But , wliere firm ...
... head : And cloudy Care has often took A gentle beamy smile , reflected from thy look . At thy appearance , Fear itself grows bold ; Thy sun - shine melts away his cold . Encouraged at the sight of thee , nels slide . But , wliere firm ...
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... head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His half - regain'd Eurydice . These delights if thou canst give , Mirth , with thee I mean ...
... head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His half - regain'd Eurydice . These delights if thou canst give , Mirth , with thee I mean ...
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... head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 100 It ...
... head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 100 It ...
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... head , And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectar'd lavers , strew'd with asphodel ; And through the porch and inlet of each sense Dropt in ambrosial oils , till she reviv'd , And underwent a quick immortal change , Made goddess ...
... head , And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectar'd lavers , strew'd with asphodel ; And through the porch and inlet of each sense Dropt in ambrosial oils , till she reviv'd , And underwent a quick immortal change , Made goddess ...
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