The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... found , Graced with soft arts , the peopled world around ! The morn that lights you , to your love supplies Each gentler ray delicious to your eyes : For you those flowers her fragrant hands bestow , And Selim; or, the Shepherd's Moral.
... found , Graced with soft arts , the peopled world around ! The morn that lights you , to your love supplies Each gentler ray delicious to your eyes : For you those flowers her fragrant hands bestow , And Selim; or, the Shepherd's Moral.
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... 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 That Love shall blind , when once he fires the swain ; Or hope a lover by your ...
... 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 That Love shall blind , when once he fires the swain ; Or hope a lover by your ...
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... light scrip contain❜d a scanty store ; A fan of painted feathers in his hand , To guard his shaded face from scorching sand . The sultry sun had gain'd the middle sky , And not a tree , and not an herb was nigh ; The beasts , with pain ...
... light scrip contain❜d a scanty store ; A fan of painted feathers in his hand , To guard his shaded face from scorching sand . The sultry sun had gain'd the middle sky , And not a tree , and not an herb was nigh ; The beasts , with pain ...
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... light ! But wherefore need I wander wide To old Ilissus ' distant side , Deserted stream , and mute ? Wild Arunt too has heard thy strains , And Echo , midst my native plains , Been soothed by Pity's lute . There first the wren thy ...
... light ! But wherefore need I wander wide To old Ilissus ' distant side , Deserted stream , and mute ? Wild Arunt too has heard thy strains , And Echo , midst my native plains , Been soothed by Pity's lute . There first the wren thy ...
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... light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin queen has blest ) , One , only one , unrivall'd fair , * Might hope the magic girdle wear , Florimel . See Spenser , Leg . 4th . At ...
... light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin queen has blest ) , One , only one , unrivall'd fair , * Might hope the magic girdle wear , Florimel . See Spenser , Leg . 4th . At ...
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