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" Roper to take her away. But to these that have had my dear Bess in their arms, She's gentle, and knows how to soften her charms; And to every beauty can add a new... "
The Works of the English Poets: Otway, Duke, and Dorset - Page 206
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The First Part of Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New ..., Part 5

John Dryden, John Milton, William D'Avenant - 1716 - 418 pages
...Arms She's gentle, and knows how to foften her Charms; And to every Beauty can add a new Grace, Hiving learn'd how to lifp, and to trip in her Pace; And with Head on one fide, and a languilhing Eye, To kill Us by Looking, as if Ihe wou'd die. SONG. PHjllii, the Faireft of Love's Toes,...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester ...

1793 - 806 pages
...Bets in their arms, She's gentle, and knows how to foften her charms ; And to every beauty can add t new grace, Having learn'd how to lifp, and to trip...and a languifhing eye, To kill us by looking as if fhe would die. S ON 9. MAT the ambitious ever find Svccefs in crowds and noife ; While gentle love...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 pages
...their arms, She's gentle, and knows how tofoften her charms; And to every beauty can add a new graco, Having learn'd how to lifp, and to trip in her pace;...on one fide, and a languifhing eye, To kill us by luoking as if fhe would die. SONG. MAY the ambitious ever find Succefs in crowds and noife ; ' While...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 pages
...gentle, and knows how to foften her charms ; And to every beauty can add a new' grace, Having'learn'd how to lifp, and to trip in her pace; And with head on one fide, and a languifliiog eye, To kill us by looking as if (he would diĀ«. rk, a noted courtezan. SONG. MAT the...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...her away. But to those that have had my dear Bess in their arms, She's gentle and knows how to soften (/ (/ lisp, and to trip in her pace; And with head on one side, and a languishing eye, To kill us by looking...
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Musa Proterva: Love-poems of the Restoration

Arthur Henry Bullen - 1889 - 168 pages
...away. But to those that have had my dear Bess in their arms, She's gentle, and knows how to soften her charms; And to every beauty can add a new grace, Having learned how to lisp and to trip in her pace; And with head on one side, and a languishing eye, To kill...
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Merry Songs and Ballads, Prior to the Year 1800, Volume 1

John Stephen Farmer - 1897 - 314 pages
...s Drums; But to those who have had my dear Bess in their Arms, She's gentle and knows how to soften her Charms And to every Beauty can add a new Grace, Having learn'd how to Lisp, and trip in her pace : And with Head on one side, and a languishing Eye, To Kill us with looking,...
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Seventeenth Century Lyrics from the Original Texts

Norman Ault - 1928 - 544 pages
...away. But to these that have had my dear Bess in their arms, She 's gentle, and knows how to soften her charms ; And to every beauty can add a new grace, Having learned how to lisp and to trip in her pace, And, with head on one side and a languishing eye, To kill...
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The Sensational Restoration

H. James Jensen - 1996 - 478 pages
...away.7 But to these that have had my dear Bess in their arms, She's gentle, and knows how to soften her charms; And to every beauty can add a new grace, Having learn'd how to lisp and to trip in her pace, And, with head on one side and a languishing eye, To kill us by looking...
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