The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Hours of IdlenessBaynes and Son, 1824 - 446 pages |
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... deep , we own their surface bright , But , dark within , they drink no lustrous light : Such are the maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain ...
... deep , we own their surface bright , But , dark within , they drink no lustrous light : Such are the maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain ...
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... Deep in the grove , beneath the secret shade , A various wreath of odorous flowers she made : * Gay - motley'd pinks and sweet jonquils she chose , The violet blue that on the moss - bank grows ; All sweet to sense , the flaunting rose ...
... Deep in the grove , beneath the secret shade , A various wreath of odorous flowers she made : * Gay - motley'd pinks and sweet jonquils she chose , The violet blue that on the moss - bank grows ; All sweet to sense , the flaunting rose ...
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... deep despair , And leave to ruffian bands their fleecy care . ' Secander . ' Unhappy land ! whose blessings tempt the sword , In vain , unheard , thou call'st thy Persian lord ! In vain thou court'st him , helpless , to thine aid , To ...
... deep despair , And leave to ruffian bands their fleecy care . ' Secander . ' Unhappy land ! whose blessings tempt the sword , In vain , unheard , thou call'st thy Persian lord ! In vain thou court'st him , helpless , to thine aid , To ...
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... woe , In evening musings slow , Soothed , sweetly sad , Electra's poet's ear : By old Cephisus ' deep , Who spread his wavy sweep In warbled wanderings round thy green retreat , On whose TO SIMPLICITY . 21 To Simplicity.
... woe , In evening musings slow , Soothed , sweetly sad , Electra's poet's ear : By old Cephisus ' deep , Who spread his wavy sweep In warbled wanderings round thy green retreat , On whose TO SIMPLICITY . 21 To Simplicity.
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... deep applauding thunder : And Truth , in sunny vest array'd , By whose the Tarsel's eyes were made ; And the shadowy tribes of Mind , In braided dance their murmurs join'd , And all the bright uncounted powers Who feed on heaven's ...
... deep applauding thunder : And Truth , in sunny vest array'd , By whose the Tarsel's eyes were made ; And the shadowy tribes of Mind , In braided dance their murmurs join'd , And all the bright uncounted powers Who feed on heaven's ...
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