The Works of the English Poets, Volume 56J. Rivington, 1779 - 371 pages |
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... dangerous wit a vain pretence , But wifely reft content with modest sense ; For wit , like wine , intoxicates the brain , Too strong for feeble woman to sustain : of Of those who claim it more than half have none 40 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
... dangerous wit a vain pretence , But wifely reft content with modest sense ; For wit , like wine , intoxicates the brain , Too strong for feeble woman to sustain : of Of those who claim it more than half have none 40 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
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... strong ; Her form each beauty of her mind exprefs'd , Her mind was Virtue by the Graces drefs'd . HORACE . BOOK IV . O DE IV . › Written at Oxford 1725 * . " Qualem miniftrum fulminis alitem , & c . " I. S the wing'd minifter of ...
... strong ; Her form each beauty of her mind exprefs'd , Her mind was Virtue by the Graces drefs'd . HORACE . BOOK IV . O DE IV . › Written at Oxford 1725 * . " Qualem miniftrum fulminis alitem , & c . " I. S the wing'd minifter of ...
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... strong alike to ruin or preserve . In wretched Jaffier , we with pity view A mind , to Honour falfe , to Virtue true , In the wild ftorm of ftruggling paffions toft , Yet faving innocence , though fame was lost ; Greatly forgetting what ...
... strong alike to ruin or preserve . In wretched Jaffier , we with pity view A mind , to Honour falfe , to Virtue true , In the wild ftorm of ftruggling paffions toft , Yet faving innocence , though fame was lost ; Greatly forgetting what ...
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... strong corruption , to despise An injur'd nation's unavailing cries ? Rouze , Britons , rouze ! if fenfe of shame be weak , Let the loud voice of threatening danger speak . Lo ! France , as Perfia once , o'er every land Prepares to ...
... strong corruption , to despise An injur'd nation's unavailing cries ? Rouze , Britons , rouze ! if fenfe of shame be weak , Let the loud voice of threatening danger speak . Lo ! France , as Perfia once , o'er every land Prepares to ...
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... Strong rapid gales his founding plumes fuftain : While , wondering at his flight , my timorous Muse In short excurfions tires her feeble wings , And in fequefter'd shades and flowery gardens fings . There , like the bee , that , from ...
... Strong rapid gales his founding plumes fuftain : While , wondering at his flight , my timorous Muse In short excurfions tires her feeble wings , And in fequefter'd shades and flowery gardens fings . There , like the bee , that , from ...
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