Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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... soul of happiness ; and all Is off the poise within : the passions all 275 Have burst their bounds ; and Reason , half extinct , Or impotent , or else approving , sees 280 The foul disorder . Senseless and deformed , Convulsive Anger ...
... soul of happiness ; and all Is off the poise within : the passions all 275 Have burst their bounds ; and Reason , half extinct , Or impotent , or else approving , sees 280 The foul disorder . Senseless and deformed , Convulsive Anger ...
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... soul . Nor is the mead unworthy of thy foot , Full of fresh verdure and unnumbered flowers , The negligence of nature wide and wild , 505 Where , undisguised by mimic art , she spreads Unbounded beauty to the roving eye . Here their ...
... soul . Nor is the mead unworthy of thy foot , Full of fresh verdure and unnumbered flowers , The negligence of nature wide and wild , 505 Where , undisguised by mimic art , she spreads Unbounded beauty to the roving eye . Here their ...
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... soul , and woos the bird of eve To mingle woes with his ; or , while the world And all the sons of care lie hushed in sleep , Associates with the midnight shadows drear , And , sighing to the lonely taper , pours His idly - tortured ...
... soul , and woos the bird of eve To mingle woes with his ; or , while the world And all the sons of care lie hushed in sleep , Associates with the midnight shadows drear , And , sighing to the lonely taper , pours His idly - tortured ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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ADORATION auld auld lang syne bard beauty beneath bless breast breath charms Christopher Smart clouds Cowper death delight Dunciad e'er earth eighteenth-century ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers frae golden reign grace hand hear heart heav'n honor hour human J. V. Cunningham John John Gay Jonathan Swift king lasses light Lord lyre maid Matthew Prior mind morn Muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace periphrasis Philip Larkin plain play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pow'r praise pride rise round scene scorn sense shade shine sighs sing skelpin sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit Spring strain stream swain sweet Swift thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse virtue voice walk wild William Cowper wind wing woods youth