The Works of the English Poets, Volume 53J. Rivington, 1779 - 344 pages |
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... shade and fun , Sometimes fwift , fometimes flow , Wave fucceeding wave , they go A various journey to the deep , Like human life , to endless fleep ! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought , To instruct our wandering thought ; Thus fhe ...
... shade and fun , Sometimes fwift , fometimes flow , Wave fucceeding wave , they go A various journey to the deep , Like human life , to endless fleep ! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought , To instruct our wandering thought ; Thus fhe ...
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... shade , Or open mountain , or whatever scene The Poet chofe , to tune th ' ennobling rhimè Melodious ; ev'n the rugged fons of war , Ev'n the rude hinds rever'd the Poet's name : But now - another age , alas ! is ours- Yet will the Muse ...
... shade , Or open mountain , or whatever scene The Poet chofe , to tune th ' ennobling rhimè Melodious ; ev'n the rugged fons of war , Ev'n the rude hinds rever'd the Poet's name : But now - another age , alas ! is ours- Yet will the Muse ...
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... shaded grass , that weaken thorn - set mounds , And harbour villain crows , he rare allow'd : Only a flender tuft of useful ash , And mingled beech and elm , fecurely tall , The little fmiling cottage warm embower'd ; The little smiling ...
... shaded grass , that weaken thorn - set mounds , And harbour villain crows , he rare allow'd : Only a flender tuft of useful ash , And mingled beech and elm , fecurely tall , The little fmiling cottage warm embower'd ; The little smiling ...
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... shade of Vecta's cliffy ifle . - Soon o'er the hofpitable realm they spread , With cheer reviv'd ; and in Sabrina's flood , And the Silurian Tame , their textures blanch'd : Not undelighted with Vigornia's fpires , Nor thofe , by Vaga's ...
... shade of Vecta's cliffy ifle . - Soon o'er the hofpitable realm they spread , With cheer reviv'd ; and in Sabrina's flood , And the Silurian Tame , their textures blanch'd : Not undelighted with Vigornia's fpires , Nor thofe , by Vaga's ...
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... shades of Endermay . II . For foon the winter of the year , And age , life's winter , will appear : At this , thy living bloom muft fade ;; As that will ftrip the verdant fhade . Our taste of pleasure then is o'er ; The feather'd ...
... shades of Endermay . II . For foon the winter of the year , And age , life's winter , will appear : At this , thy living bloom muft fade ;; As that will ftrip the verdant fhade . Our taste of pleasure then is o'er ; The feather'd ...
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