The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Youth and a blooming luftre in its face , To th ' arms of those more yielding metals flies , And in the folds of their embraces lies . So close they.cling , so stubbornly retire ; Their love's more violent than the chemift's fire . Near ...
... Youth and a blooming luftre in its face , To th ' arms of those more yielding metals flies , And in the folds of their embraces lies . So close they.cling , so stubbornly retire ; Their love's more violent than the chemift's fire . Near ...
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... youth on heroes ' fhades below . Soon as the bright Hygeia was in view , The venerable fage her prefence knew : Thus he - Hail , blooming goddefs ! thou propitious power , Whose bleffings mortals more than life implore ! With fo much ...
... youth on heroes ' fhades below . Soon as the bright Hygeia was in view , The venerable fage her prefence knew : Thus he - Hail , blooming goddefs ! thou propitious power , Whose bleffings mortals more than life implore ! With fo much ...
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... youth , that I decline Amame fo lov'd by me , fo lately thine . When Pelham you refign'd , what could repair A lofs fo great , unless Newcastle's heir ? Hydafpes , that the Afian plains divides , " From his bright urn in pureft cryftal ...
... youth , that I decline Amame fo lov'd by me , fo lately thine . When Pelham you refign'd , what could repair A lofs fo great , unless Newcastle's heir ? Hydafpes , that the Afian plains divides , " From his bright urn in pureft cryftal ...
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... youth , and prime . The fmiling bloom , I boasted once , is gone , And feeble age with lagging limbs creeps on . Seven centuries have I liv'd ; three more fulfil The period of the years to finish still . Who ' ll think , that Phoebus ...
... youth , and prime . The fmiling bloom , I boasted once , is gone , And feeble age with lagging limbs creeps on . Seven centuries have I liv'd ; three more fulfil The period of the years to finish still . Who ' ll think , that Phoebus ...
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... youth furvey'd , As fimpling on the flowery hills the fray'd .. Her wifhing eyes their filent meffage tell , And from her lap the verdant mischief fell . As fhe attempts at words , his courfer fprings O'er hills , and lawns , and ev'n a ...
... youth furvey'd , As fimpling on the flowery hills the fray'd .. Her wifhing eyes their filent meffage tell , And from her lap the verdant mischief fell . As fhe attempts at words , his courfer fprings O'er hills , and lawns , and ev'n a ...
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