The Works of the English Poets, Volume 12J. D. Cornish, 1779 - 390 pages |
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... trees which Lucullus brought from Pontus . Our own nation has produced a third Poet in this kind , not inferior to the two former . For the Shep- herd's Calendar of Spenfer is not to be matched in any modern language . Not even by ...
... trees which Lucullus brought from Pontus . Our own nation has produced a third Poet in this kind , not inferior to the two former . For the Shep- herd's Calendar of Spenfer is not to be matched in any modern language . Not even by ...
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... trees 70 Is fraught with flowers , the flowers are fraught with bees : The bufy bees with a foft murmuring strain Invite to gentle fleep the labouring swain . While from the neighbouring rock , with rural fongs75 The pruner's voice the ...
... trees 70 Is fraught with flowers , the flowers are fraught with bees : The bufy bees with a foft murmuring strain Invite to gentle fleep the labouring swain . While from the neighbouring rock , with rural fongs75 The pruner's voice the ...
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... trees are cloath'd with leaves , the fields with grass ; The bloffoms blow ; the birds on bushes fing ; And nature has accomplish'd all the spring . The challenge to Damætas shall belong , Mænalcas shall sustain his under - song : Each ...
... trees are cloath'd with leaves , the fields with grass ; The bloffoms blow ; the birds on bushes fing ; And nature has accomplish'd all the spring . The challenge to Damætas shall belong , Mænalcas shall sustain his under - song : Each ...
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... tree ; But more than all the world my love to me . DAM . Pollio my rural verse vouchfafes to read : A heifer , Muses , for your patron breed . MEN . My Pollio writes himself ; a bull be bred With fpurning heels , and with a butting head ...
... tree ; But more than all the world my love to me . DAM . Pollio my rural verse vouchfafes to read : A heifer , Muses , for your patron breed . MEN . My Pollio writes himself ; a bull be bred With fpurning heels , and with a butting head ...
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... trees that shade the plain , Delight not all ; Sicilian Mufe , prepare To make the vocal woods deferve a conful's care . The last great age , foretold by sacred rhymes , Renews its finish'd courfe ; Saturnian times Roll round again ...
... trees that shade the plain , Delight not all ; Sicilian Mufe , prepare To make the vocal woods deferve a conful's care . The last great age , foretold by sacred rhymes , Renews its finish'd courfe ; Saturnian times Roll round again ...
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