The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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... spreading woods embrown the beauteous scene , There the wide landscape fmiles with livelier green , The floating glafs reflects the diftant sky , And o'er the whole the glancing fun - beams fly ; Buds open , and disclose the inmost ...
... spreading woods embrown the beauteous scene , There the wide landscape fmiles with livelier green , The floating glafs reflects the diftant sky , And o'er the whole the glancing fun - beams fly ; Buds open , and disclose the inmost ...
Page 36
... spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon fung their rural lays : This mourn'd a faithlefs , that an abfent love : And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your facred fuccour bring ; Hylas and Ægon's rural ...
... spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon fung their rural lays : This mourn'd a faithlefs , that an abfent love : And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your facred fuccour bring ; Hylas and Ægon's rural ...
Page 60
... spread , The forests wonder'd at th ' unusual grain , And secret transport touch'd the confcious swain . VARIATION . 80 85 90 Fair Ver . 72. And wolves with howling fill , & c . ] The Author thought this an error , wolves not being ...
... spread , The forests wonder'd at th ' unusual grain , And secret transport touch'd the confcious swain . VARIATION . 80 85 90 Fair Ver . 72. And wolves with howling fill , & c . ] The Author thought this an error , wolves not being ...
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... spread the waving net . When milder autumn fummer's heat fucceeds , And in the new - fhorn field the partridge feeds , Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds , 95 Panting with hope , he tries the furrow'd grounds ; 100 But when the ...
... spread the waving net . When milder autumn fummer's heat fucceeds , And in the new - fhorn field the partridge feeds , Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds , 95 Panting with hope , he tries the furrow'd grounds ; 100 But when the ...
Page 104
... spreads on every place ; The face of Nature we no more furvey , All glares alike , without diftinction gay : But true expreffion , like th ' unchanging fun , Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon , It gilds all objects , but it ...
... spreads on every place ; The face of Nature we no more furvey , All glares alike , without diftinction gay : But true expreffion , like th ' unchanging fun , Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon , It gilds all objects , but it ...
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