The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... lady gay , And got on her a race of worthies As tout as any upon earth is . Full many a fight for him between Talgol and Orfin oft had been , 285 Each Each striving to deserve the crown Of a fav'd citizen BUTLER'S POEMS .
... lady gay , And got on her a race of worthies As tout as any upon earth is . Full many a fight for him between Talgol and Orfin oft had been , 285 Each Each striving to deserve the crown Of a fav'd citizen BUTLER'S POEMS .
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... ladies , in their works , To fight like termagants and Turks ; • Το Ver . 368. ] Alluding , probably , to Mary Carlton , called Kentish Moll , but more commonly The German Princess ; a perfon notorious at the time this Firft Part of ...
... ladies , in their works , To fight like termagants and Turks ; • Το Ver . 368. ] Alluding , probably , to Mary Carlton , called Kentish Moll , but more commonly The German Princess ; a perfon notorious at the time this Firft Part of ...
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... lady ; Not love , if any lov'd her : hey - day ! So cowards never ufe their might , But against fuch as will not fight . So fome difcafes have been found 340 Only to feize upon the found . He that gets her by heart , must say her The ...
... lady ; Not love , if any lov'd her : hey - day ! So cowards never ufe their might , But against fuch as will not fight . So fome difcafes have been found 340 Only to feize upon the found . He that gets her by heart , must say her The ...
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... Lady's vifit , And cunningly folicits his fuit , Which the defers ; yet , on parole , Redeems him from th ' inchanted hole . UT now , t ' observe Romantique method , Let bloody steel a while be sheathed ; Arg . Ver . 1 , 2. ] Thus ...
... Lady's vifit , And cunningly folicits his fuit , Which the defers ; yet , on parole , Redeems him from th ' inchanted hole . UT now , t ' observe Romantique method , Let bloody steel a while be sheathed ; Arg . Ver . 1 , 2. ] Thus ...
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... 10. ] That fome men's fancies , & c . That a ; man's fancy , in the two first editions of 1664 . Some writers make all ladies purloin'd , And knights pursuing 154 BUTLER'S POEMS . In which, that we may be as brief as ...
... 10. ] That fome men's fancies , & c . That a ; man's fancy , in the two first editions of 1664 . Some writers make all ladies purloin'd , And knights pursuing 154 BUTLER'S POEMS . In which, that we may be as brief as ...
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