The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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Page v
... true models which we , or perhaps any of our neighbours ' have , of familiar Epiftles . This collec- tion is now made more complete by the addition of feveral new pieces . Yet , excepting a fhort explanatory letter to Col. M. and the ...
... true models which we , or perhaps any of our neighbours ' have , of familiar Epiftles . This collec- tion is now made more complete by the addition of feveral new pieces . Yet , excepting a fhort explanatory letter to Col. M. and the ...
Page x
... true measure of the shepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwain's be wrought , So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the ...
... true measure of the shepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwain's be wrought , So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the ...
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... true the fair Lodona fhows The fylvan state that on her border grows , While the the wond'ring shepherd entertains With a new Windfor in her watery plains : The jufter lays the lucid wave furpass , The living scene is in the Mufe's ...
... true the fair Lodona fhows The fylvan state that on her border grows , While the the wond'ring shepherd entertains With a new Windfor in her watery plains : The jufter lays the lucid wave furpass , The living scene is in the Mufe's ...
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... true , that , in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by thofe who have been moft indebted to them . For , to fay truth , what- ever is very good fenfe , must have been common fenfe in all times ...
... true , that , in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by thofe who have been moft indebted to them . For , to fay truth , what- ever is very good fenfe , must have been common fenfe in all times ...
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... true reafon they are not yet more correct is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live . A man that can expect but fixty years , may be ashamed to em- ploy thirty in meafuring fyllables , and bringing fenfe ...
... true reafon they are not yet more correct is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live . A man that can expect but fixty years , may be ashamed to em- ploy thirty in meafuring fyllables , and bringing fenfe ...
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