The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... hearts accept their doom : Shot by the peacock's painted eye , The vain and airy lovers die : For careful dames and frugal men , The shafts are fpeckled by the hen . The and parrots pyes deck the darts , When prattling wins the panting ...
... hearts accept their doom : Shot by the peacock's painted eye , The vain and airy lovers die : For careful dames and frugal men , The shafts are fpeckled by the hen . The and parrots pyes deck the darts , When prattling wins the panting ...
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... heart , He had a fhape to win .. Edwin , if right I read my fong , With flighted paffion pac'd along All in the moony light ; " T was near an old enchanted court ,. Where sportive fairies made refort- To revel out the night . His heart ...
... heart , He had a fhape to win .. Edwin , if right I read my fong , With flighted paffion pac'd along All in the moony light ; " T was near an old enchanted court ,. Where sportive fairies made refort- To revel out the night . His heart ...
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... " Which made my steps unweeting rove " Amid the nightly dew . " " ' Tis well , the gallant cries again , " We fairies never injure men " Who dare to tell us true . C 4 " Exalt • " Exalt thy love - dejected heart , " A FAIRY TALE . 23.
... " Which made my steps unweeting rove " Amid the nightly dew . " " ' Tis well , the gallant cries again , " We fairies never injure men " Who dare to tell us true . C 4 " Exalt • " Exalt thy love - dejected heart , " A FAIRY TALE . 23.
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... heart , " Be mine the task , or ere we part , " To make thee grief refign ; " Now take the pleasure of thy chaunce ; " Whilst I with Mab , my partner , daunce , " Be little Mable thine . " He spoke , and all a fudden there Light mufic ...
... heart , " Be mine the task , or ere we part , " To make thee grief refign ; " Now take the pleasure of thy chaunce ; " Whilst I with Mab , my partner , daunce , " Be little Mable thine . " He spoke , and all a fudden there Light mufic ...
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... heart with unaccuftora'd fears ; He fighs , and , chill'd with danger , longs for fhore : His tail extended forms a fruitless oar , Half drench'd in liquid death his prayers he fpake , And thus bemoan'd him from the dreadful lake : So ...
... heart with unaccuftora'd fears ; He fighs , and , chill'd with danger , longs for fhore : His tail extended forms a fruitless oar , Half drench'd in liquid death his prayers he fpake , And thus bemoan'd him from the dreadful lake : So ...
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