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Oh ! could Britannia imitate thy stream , The world should tremble at her awful name : From various springs divided waters glide , In different colours roll a different tide , Murmur along their crooked banks a while , At once they ...
Oh ! could Britannia imitate thy stream , The world should tremble at her awful name : From various springs divided waters glide , In different colours roll a different tide , Murmur along their crooked banks a while , At once they ...
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Go on , and , with thy rare refiftless art , Rule each emotion of the various heart ; 45 The spring and test of verse unrival'd reign , And the full honours of thy youth maintain ; Sooth with thy wonted ease and power divine , Our souls ...
Go on , and , with thy rare refiftless art , Rule each emotion of the various heart ; 45 The spring and test of verse unrival'd reign , And the full honours of thy youth maintain ; Sooth with thy wonted ease and power divine , Our souls ...
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But after all , if they have any merit , it is to be attributed to some good old Authors , whose works as I had leisure to study , fo , I hope , I have not wanted care to imitate . C4 SPRING 1 ! S P R I N G. THE FIRST ON PASTORAL POETRY ...
But after all , if they have any merit , it is to be attributed to some good old Authors , whose works as I had leisure to study , fo , I hope , I have not wanted care to imitate . C4 SPRING 1 ! S P R I N G. THE FIRST ON PASTORAL POETRY ...
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FIRST in these fields I try the fylvan ftrains , Nor blush to sport on Windsor's blissful plains : Fair Thames , flow gently from thyesacred spring , While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing ; Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play ...
FIRST in these fields I try the fylvan ftrains , Nor blush to sport on Windsor's blissful plains : Fair Thames , flow gently from thyesacred spring , While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing ; Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play ...
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Why fit we mute , when early linnets fing , When warbling Philomel salutes the spring ? Why sit we fad , when Phosphor shines so clear , And lavish Nature paints the purple year ? S T & B + H Ở N. Sing then , and Damon shall attend the ...
Why fit we mute , when early linnets fing , When warbling Philomel salutes the spring ? Why sit we fad , when Phosphor shines so clear , And lavish Nature paints the purple year ? S T & B + H Ở N. Sing then , and Damon shall attend the ...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 34 |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, William Strahan (Londres), Charles Bathurst (Londres) |
| Publisher | W. and A. Strahan, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2010 |
| Length | 360 pages |
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