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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... live , if I grow old ; " Tis time short pleasures now to take Of little life the best to make , And manage wisely the last stake . VII . GOLD . A MIGHTY pain to love it is , And ' tis a pain that pain to miss But , of all pains , the ...
... live , if I grow old ; " Tis time short pleasures now to take Of little life the best to make , And manage wisely the last stake . VII . GOLD . A MIGHTY pain to love it is , And ' tis a pain that pain to miss But , of all pains , the ...
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... live is fair , The fertile soil will a full harvest bear : Thou didst with faith and labor serve , And didst ( if faith and labor can ) deserve , Though she contracted was to thee , Given to another thou didst see , Given to another ...
... live is fair , The fertile soil will a full harvest bear : Thou didst with faith and labor serve , And didst ( if faith and labor can ) deserve , Though she contracted was to thee , Given to another thou didst see , Given to another ...
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... live , and embracing die ! She , who is all the world , and can exclude In deserts solitude . I should have then this only fear- Lest men , when they my pleasures see , Should hither throng to live like me , And so make a city here ...
... live , and embracing die ! She , who is all the world , and can exclude In deserts solitude . I should have then this only fear- Lest men , when they my pleasures see , Should hither throng to live like me , And so make a city here ...
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... live with her , and live with thee , In unreproved pleasures free . To hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull Night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ; Oft listening how the ...
... live with her , and live with thee , In unreproved pleasures free . To hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull Night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ; Oft listening how the ...
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... live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find , And think to burst out into sudden blaze , Comes ... lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes , And perfect witness of all - judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on ...
... live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find , And think to burst out into sudden blaze , Comes ... lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes , And perfect witness of all - judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on ...
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