The Works of the English Poets, Volume 56J. Rivington, 1779 - 371 pages |
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... strains , With which thy Congreve charm'd the listening plains : Yet fhall its mufic please thy partial ear , And footh thy breast with thoughts that once were dear ; Recal thofe years which time has thrown behind , When smiling Love ...
... strains , With which thy Congreve charm'd the listening plains : Yet fhall its mufic please thy partial ear , And footh thy breast with thoughts that once were dear ; Recal thofe years which time has thrown behind , When smiling Love ...
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... strains : No ferious love my bofom fir'd ; Yet every tender maid , deceiv'd , The idly - mournful tale believ'd ,. And wept my fancied pains . But Venus now , to punish me For having feign'd so well , Has made my heart fo fond of thee ...
... strains : No ferious love my bofom fir'd ; Yet every tender maid , deceiv'd , The idly - mournful tale believ'd ,. And wept my fancied pains . But Venus now , to punish me For having feign'd so well , Has made my heart fo fond of thee ...
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... strain , Shall fink , unequal to the arduous flight , Like him , who falling nam'd th ' Icarian main ; Pre- * Four Swans fufiain , & c . ] Pindar , being feated in a Chariot , alludes to the Horfe - races he celebrated in the Grecian ...
... strain , Shall fink , unequal to the arduous flight , Like him , who falling nam'd th ' Icarian main ; Pre- * Four Swans fufiain , & c . ] Pindar , being feated in a Chariot , alludes to the Horfe - races he celebrated in the Grecian ...
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... strains to deck th ' untimely bier Of fome difaftrous bridegroom fair and young ; Whofe virtues , in his deifying lays , Through the black gloom of death with ftar - like radiance blaze . When When to the clouds , along th ' æthereal ...
... strains to deck th ' untimely bier Of fome difaftrous bridegroom fair and young ; Whofe virtues , in his deifying lays , Through the black gloom of death with ftar - like radiance blaze . When When to the clouds , along th ' æthereal ...
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... strain ! What mortal tongue e'er roll'd along Such full impetuous tides of nervous song ? I. 2 . The fearful , frigid lays of cold and creeping art , Nor touch , nor can transport th ' unfeeling heart ; Pindar , our inmoft bofom ...
... strain ! What mortal tongue e'er roll'd along Such full impetuous tides of nervous song ? I. 2 . The fearful , frigid lays of cold and creeping art , Nor touch , nor can transport th ' unfeeling heart ; Pindar , our inmoft bofom ...
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