The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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... fair , Distinctions vanish of peculiar air . Loft in our pleasure , we enjoy in you Lucretius , Horace , Sheffield , Montague . And yet ' tis thought , some critics in this town , By rules to all , but to themselves , unknown , Will ...
... fair , Distinctions vanish of peculiar air . Loft in our pleasure , we enjoy in you Lucretius , Horace , Sheffield , Montague . And yet ' tis thought , some critics in this town , By rules to all , but to themselves , unknown , Will ...
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... orthodox : He pafs'd his eafy hours , instead of prayer , In madrigals , and phyllifing the fair ; * See Boil . Lut . † Dr. Atterbury . 145 Confiant Conftant at feafts , and each decorum knew , And 24 POEMS . GARTH'S.
... orthodox : He pafs'd his eafy hours , instead of prayer , In madrigals , and phyllifing the fair ; * See Boil . Lut . † Dr. Atterbury . 145 Confiant Conftant at feafts , and each decorum knew , And 24 POEMS . GARTH'S.
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... fair - one fighs , And Gods fubfift not but by facrifice . Each other being fome indulgence knows : Few are my joys , but infinite my woes . My prefent pain Britannia's genius wills , And thus the fates record my future ills . A heroine ...
... fair - one fighs , And Gods fubfift not but by facrifice . Each other being fome indulgence knows : Few are my joys , but infinite my woes . My prefent pain Britannia's genius wills , And thus the fates record my future ills . A heroine ...
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... fair . In trifling fhow his tinfel talent lies ; And form the want of intellects fupplies . In aspect grand and goodly he appears , Rever'd as patriarchs in primæv al years . Hourly his learn'd impertinence affords . A barren ...
... fair . In trifling fhow his tinfel talent lies ; And form the want of intellects fupplies . In aspect grand and goodly he appears , Rever'd as patriarchs in primæv al years . Hourly his learn'd impertinence affords . A barren ...
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... fair - one kind . So truly Horofcope its virtues knows , To this lov'd idol ' tis , alone , he bows ; And fancies fuch bright heraldry can prove , The vile Plebeian but the third from Jove . Long has he been of that amphibious fry ...
... fair - one kind . So truly Horofcope its virtues knows , To this lov'd idol ' tis , alone , he bows ; And fancies fuch bright heraldry can prove , The vile Plebeian but the third from Jove . Long has he been of that amphibious fry ...
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