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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... stream , Pindar , her Theban favorite , to meet ; A crown was on her head , and wings were on her feet . She touch'd him with her harp , and rais'd him fro the ground ; The shaken strings melodiously resound . 64 Art thou return'd at ...
... stream , Pindar , her Theban favorite , to meet ; A crown was on her head , and wings were on her feet . She touch'd him with her harp , and rais'd him fro the ground ; The shaken strings melodiously resound . 64 Art thou return'd at ...
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... stream through the close chan- To the cheek color comes , and firmness to the Alike , if it succeed , and if it miss ; knee . Hope thou bold taster of delight , [ quite ! Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st i Fruition more ...
... stream through the close chan- To the cheek color comes , and firmness to the Alike , if it succeed , and if it miss ; knee . Hope thou bold taster of delight , [ quite ! Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st i Fruition more ...
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... stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 100 It was that fatal and perfidious bark , | Built in the eclipse , and rigg'd with curses dark , That sunk so low that sacred head of thine . Next Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His ...
... stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 100 It was that fatal and perfidious bark , | Built in the eclipse , and rigg'd with curses dark , That sunk so low that sacred head of thine . Next Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His ...
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... streams along , With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves , And hears the unexpressive nuptial song , In the blest ... stream , Took in by lot ' twixt high and nether Jove the Imperial rule of all the sea - girt isles , 20 That , like ...
... streams along , With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves , And hears the unexpressive nuptial song , In the blest ... stream , Took in by lot ' twixt high and nether Jove the Imperial rule of all the sea - girt isles , 20 That , like ...
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... stream , and nothing wear frieze , The All - giver would be unthank'd , would be prais'd , 770 If every just man , that now pines with want , Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly pamper'd Luxury Now heaps upon ...
... stream , and nothing wear frieze , The All - giver would be unthank'd , would be prais'd , 770 If every just man , that now pines with want , Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly pamper'd Luxury Now heaps upon ...
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