The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... force to taste . I would a poet , like a miftrefs , try , Not by her hair , her hand , her nose , her eye ; But by fome nameless power , to give me joy . The nymph has Grafton's , Cecil's , Churchill's charms , If with refiftlefs fires ...
... force to taste . I would a poet , like a miftrefs , try , Not by her hair , her hand , her nose , her eye ; But by fome nameless power , to give me joy . The nymph has Grafton's , Cecil's , Churchill's charms , If with refiftlefs fires ...
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... forces join , And hope the motley piece may rival thine . Safely defpife their malice , and their toil , Which vulgar ears alone will reach , and will defile . Be it thy generous pride to please the best , Whose judgement , and whose ...
... forces join , And hope the motley piece may rival thine . Safely defpife their malice , and their toil , Which vulgar ears alone will reach , and will defile . Be it thy generous pride to please the best , Whose judgement , and whose ...
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... force would try , Faces the fun , and towers it to the fky . Others proceed to art by flow degrees , Aukward at firft , at length they faintly please ; And still , whate'er their firft efforts produce , ' Tis an abortive , or an infant ...
... force would try , Faces the fun , and towers it to the fky . Others proceed to art by flow degrees , Aukward at firft , at length they faintly please ; And still , whate'er their firft efforts produce , ' Tis an abortive , or an infant ...
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... force , how delicate their frame ; Ver . 19 . VARIATIONS . -they ftill purfued . They find her dubious now , and then as plain , Here the ' s too fparing ; there profufely vain . 15 20 25 30 35 How How the fame nerves are fashion'd to ...
... force , how delicate their frame ; Ver . 19 . VARIATIONS . -they ftill purfued . They find her dubious now , and then as plain , Here the ' s too fparing ; there profufely vain . 15 20 25 30 35 How How the fame nerves are fashion'd to ...
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... force renew ; How mournful Myrrha for her crimes appears ,. And heals hyfteric matrons still with tears ; How Mentha and Althea , nymphs no more ,. 13 135 Revive in facred plants , and health restore How How fanguine fwains their ...
... force renew ; How mournful Myrrha for her crimes appears ,. And heals hyfteric matrons still with tears ; How Mentha and Althea , nymphs no more ,. 13 135 Revive in facred plants , and health restore How How fanguine fwains their ...
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