The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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... force to taste . I would a poet , like a miftress , try , Not by her hair , her hand , her nose , her eye ; But by fome namelefs 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 miftress , try , Not by her hair , her hand , her nose , her eye ; But by fome namelefs 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 , Whofe judgement , and whofe ...
... 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 , Whofe judgement , and whofe ...
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... force would Faces the fun , and towers it to the sky . Others proceed to art by flow degrees , Aukward at first , at length they faintly please ; And fill , whate'er their firft efforts produce , ' Tis an abortive , or an infant Muse ...
... force would Faces the fun , and towers it to the sky . Others proceed to art by flow degrees , Aukward at first , at length they faintly please ; And fill , whate'er their firft efforts produce , ' Tis an abortive , or an infant Muse ...
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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 . 35 How How the fame nerves are fashion'd to sustain The ...
... 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 . 35 How How the fame nerves are fashion'd to sustain The ...
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... force renew ; How mournful Myrrha for her crimes appears , And heals hyfteric matrons ftill with tears ; How Mentha and Althea , nymphs no more , Revive in facred plants , and health restore ; 130 135 How 1 How fanguine fwains their ...
... force renew ; How mournful Myrrha for her crimes appears , And heals hyfteric matrons ftill with tears ; How Mentha and Althea , nymphs no more , Revive in facred plants , and health restore ; 130 135 How 1 How fanguine fwains their ...
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