The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... beauty of each nervous line ! Shew how your pointed fatire's fterling wit , Does only knaves or formal blockheads hit ; Who ' re gravely dull , infipidly ferene , And carry all their wisdom in their mien ; Whom thus expos'd , thus ...
... beauty of each nervous line ! Shew how your pointed fatire's fterling wit , Does only knaves or formal blockheads hit ; Who ' re gravely dull , infipidly ferene , And carry all their wisdom in their mien ; Whom thus expos'd , thus ...
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... beauty entertains the fight , But baneful hemlock , and cold aconite ; In a dark grot the baleful haggard lay , Breathing black vengeance , and infecting day . 5 15 But But how deform'd , and worn with fpiteful woes , 28 GARTH'S POEMS .
... beauty entertains the fight , But baneful hemlock , and cold aconite ; In a dark grot the baleful haggard lay , Breathing black vengeance , and infecting day . 5 15 But But how deform'd , and worn with fpiteful woes , 28 GARTH'S POEMS .
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... to thy midnight myfteries , * Dr . Goodall against Dr. Tyfon . + Dr. Birch . Dr. Gill against Dr. Ridley . Dr. Chamberlain . 2.75 280 285 at of my early vows , Dave eas'd the If , THE DISPENSARY . CANTO V. 73 Beauty and Mufick.
... to thy midnight myfteries , * Dr . Goodall against Dr. Tyfon . + Dr. Birch . Dr. Gill against Dr. Ridley . Dr. Chamberlain . 2.75 280 285 at of my early vows , Dave eas'd the If , THE DISPENSARY . CANTO V. 73 Beauty and Mufick.
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... beauty , to increase her crowd of slaves , Rofe out of wash , as Venus out of waves ; 95 Not yet lead - comb was on the toilet plac'd ; Not yet broad eye - brows were reduc'd by paste ; Ne No fhape - fmith fet up shop , and drove CLARE ...
... beauty , to increase her crowd of slaves , Rofe out of wash , as Venus out of waves ; 95 Not yet lead - comb was on the toilet plac'd ; Not yet broad eye - brows were reduc'd by paste ; Ne No fhape - fmith fet up shop , and drove CLARE ...
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... Beauty fhines ; And every ftar its fading fire refigns . } TO RICHARD EARL OF BURLINGTON , WITH OVID'S ART OF LOVE . MY LORD , UR Poet's rules , in eafy numbers , tell , OUR He felt the paffion he defcribes fo well . In that foft art ...
... Beauty fhines ; And every ftar its fading fire refigns . } TO RICHARD EARL OF BURLINGTON , WITH OVID'S ART OF LOVE . MY LORD , UR Poet's rules , in eafy numbers , tell , OUR He felt the paffion he defcribes fo well . In that foft art ...
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