The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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Page xvi
... thou each paffion to each breast impart ? Our beating Hearts with sprightly measures move , Or melt us with a tale of hapless Love ! 5 Th ' elated mind's impetuous starts control , Or gently footh to peace the troubled foul ! Graces ...
... thou each paffion to each breast impart ? Our beating Hearts with sprightly measures move , Or melt us with a tale of hapless Love ! 5 Th ' elated mind's impetuous starts control , Or gently footh to peace the troubled foul ! Graces ...
Page xxiii
... thou chufe , What laurel'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Though each great Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft ...
... thou chufe , What laurel'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Though each great Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft ...
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... thou canst not cure . Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams ... thou prouder and more hard than they ? The bleating fheep with my complaints agree , They parch'd with heat , and I ...
... thou canst not cure . Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams ... thou prouder and more hard than they ? The bleating fheep with my complaints agree , They parch'd with heat , and I ...
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... Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit infpire , The art of Terence and Menander's fire ; Whose sense inftructs us , and whofe humour charms , 5 Whofe judgment fways us , and whofe fpirit warms ! 10 Oh , skill'd in Nature ! fee the ...
... Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit infpire , The art of Terence and Menander's fire ; Whose sense inftructs us , and whofe humour charms , 5 Whofe judgment fways us , and whofe fpirit warms ! 10 Oh , skill'd in Nature ! fee the ...
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... Thou wert from Ætna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ! Resound , ye hills , refound my mournful lay ! Farewell , ye woods , adieu the light of day ! One leap from yonder cliff shall end my pains ...
... Thou wert from Ætna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ! Resound , ye hills , refound my mournful lay ! Farewell , ye woods , adieu the light of day ! One leap from yonder cliff shall end my pains ...
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