The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... maids ! attend your poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest , whom Fortune's hand ... maid ; Or taught the swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow - a virtuous mind . When ...
... maids ! attend your poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest , whom Fortune's hand ... maid ; Or taught the swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow - a virtuous mind . When ...
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... maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts ... maid ; But man the most - not more the mountain doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her breast ...
... maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts ... maid ; But man the most - not more the mountain doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her breast ...
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... 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 . Time - Mid - day . IN silent horror ...
... 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 . Time - Mid - day . IN silent horror ...
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... maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain , Whom Zara's breaking heart implored in vain ! Yet as thou go'st may every blast arise Weak and unfelt , as these rejected sighs ...
... maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain , Whom Zara's breaking heart implored in vain ! Yet as thou go'st may every blast arise Weak and unfelt , as these rejected sighs ...
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... maids of Zagen's peaceful grove , Emyra sung the pleasing cares of love . Of Abra first began the tender strain , Who ... maid like Abra loved ! ' These flowers are found in very great abundance in some of the provinces of Persia . The ...
... maids of Zagen's peaceful grove , Emyra sung the pleasing cares of love . Of Abra first began the tender strain , Who ... maid like Abra loved ! ' These flowers are found in very great abundance in some of the provinces of Persia . The ...
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Amyntas arms bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe brow charms cliffs clouds Corydon Daphnis dark death deep divine dread drest ECLOGUE Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flowers gale gentle glittering glory glow grace Gray grove hail hand heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty 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 roll round sacred scene shade shepherd sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime swain sweet tear thee thine Thormodus Torfæus thou thought throne toil trembling truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild wind wing yonder youth