The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Sings to mock clifts a melancholy lay , And with a lover's leap affrights the fea . The fad Eryphile retreats to moan , What wrought her husband's death , and caus'd her own ; Surveys the glittering veil , the bribe of fate , And tears ...
... Sings to mock clifts a melancholy lay , And with a lover's leap affrights the fea . The fad Eryphile retreats to moan , What wrought her husband's death , and caus'd her own ; Surveys the glittering veil , the bribe of fate , And tears ...
Page 305
... Sing what thou wilt , ill - nature will prevail ; And every elf hath skill enough to rail : But yet , though poor and artlefs be my vein , Menalcas feems to like my fimple strain : And , while that he delighteth in my song , Which to ...
... Sing what thou wilt , ill - nature will prevail ; And every elf hath skill enough to rail : But yet , though poor and artlefs be my vein , Menalcas feems to like my fimple strain : And , while that he delighteth in my song , Which to ...
Page 364
... Singing many a tuneless fong , Lavish of a heedlefs tongue , Simple maiden , void of art , Babbling out the very heart , Yet abandon'd to thy will , Yet imagining no ill , Yet too innocent to blush , Like the linnet in the bush . To the ...
... Singing many a tuneless fong , Lavish of a heedlefs tongue , Simple maiden , void of art , Babbling out the very heart , Yet abandon'd to thy will , Yet imagining no ill , Yet too innocent to blush , Like the linnet in the bush . To the ...
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