The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... deep , we own their surface bright , But , dark within , they drink no lustrous light : Such are the maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain ...
... deep , we own their surface bright , But , dark within , they drink no lustrous light : Such are the maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain ...
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... Deep in the grove , beneath the secret shade , A various wreath of odorous flowers she made : ' Gay - motley'd pinks and sweet jonquils she chose , The violet blue that on the moss - bank grows ; All sweet to sense , the flaunting rose ...
... Deep in the grove , beneath the secret shade , A various wreath of odorous flowers she made : ' Gay - motley'd pinks and sweet jonquils she chose , The violet blue that on the moss - bank grows ; All sweet to sense , the flaunting rose ...
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... deep despair , And leave to ruffian bands their fleecy care . ' Secander . ' Unhappy land ! whose blessings tempt the sword , In vain , unheard , thou call'st thy Persian lord ! In vain thou court'st him , helpless , to thine aid , To ...
... deep despair , And leave to ruffian bands their fleecy care . ' Secander . ' Unhappy land ! whose blessings tempt the sword , In vain , unheard , thou call'st thy Persian lord ! In vain thou court'st him , helpless , to thine aid , To ...
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... deep , Who spread his wavy sweep In warbled wanderings round thy green retreat , On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth Thy sober aid and ...
... deep , Who spread his wavy sweep In warbled wanderings round thy green retreat , On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth Thy sober aid and ...
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... deep applauding thunders And Truth , in sunny vest array'd , By whose the Tarsel's eyes were made ; And the shadowy tribes of Mind , In braided dance their murmurs join'd , And all the bright uncounted powers Who feed on heaven's ...
... deep applauding thunders And Truth , in sunny vest array'd , By whose the Tarsel's eyes were made ; And the shadowy tribes of Mind , In braided dance their murmurs join'd , And all the bright uncounted powers Who feed on heaven's ...
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