The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson,, 1852 - 308 pages |
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... swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow - a virtuous mind . When sweet and blushing , like a virgin bride , The radiant morn resumed her orient pride ; When wanton gales along the valleys play , Breathe on each ...
... swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow - a virtuous mind . When sweet and blushing , like a virgin bride , The radiant morn resumed her orient pride ; When wanton gales along the valleys play , Breathe on each ...
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... swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermine beautify the skin : Who seeks secure to rule , be first her care Each softer virtue that adorns the fair ; Each tender passion man delights to find , The loved ...
... swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermine beautify the skin : Who seeks secure to rule , be first her care Each softer virtue that adorns the fair ; Each tender passion man delights to find , The loved ...
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... swain ; and ancient legends say , The maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along , The shepherds loved , and Selim bless'd his song . ECLOGUE II . HASSAN ; OR , THE CAMEL - DRIVER . Scene The Desert ...
... swain ; and ancient legends say , The maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along , The shepherds loved , and Selim bless'd his song . ECLOGUE II . HASSAN ; OR , THE CAMEL - DRIVER . Scene The Desert ...
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... swain , he wore , And thought of crowns and busy courts no more . Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! ' Blest was the life that roval Abbas led : Sweet was his love , and innocent his bed ...
... swain , he wore , And thought of crowns and busy courts no more . Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! ' Blest was the life that roval Abbas led : Sweet was his love , and innocent his bed ...
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... swain was blest , for every maid was kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none but wretches haunt the twilight plains ; What time the Moon had hung her lamp on high And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ...
... swain was blest , for every maid was kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none but wretches haunt the twilight plains ; What time the Moon had hung her lamp on high And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ...
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Amyntas bard beauty beneath blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe charms cliffs clouds Corydon Damætas Daphnis dark death deep delight divine dread drest ECLOGUE Edwin Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fear fire flame flocks flowers gale gentle glory glow grace Gray grove hail hand hear heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lonely Lycidas lyre maid Margaret of Anjou melting Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymph o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride rage rapture reign rills round sacred sailor young scene shade shepherd sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime sung swain sweet tear thee thine Thormodus Torfæus thou thought toil trembling truth Twas vale verse virtue voice warbling wave wild winds wing yonder youth