The Works of the English Poets, Volume 11E. Cox, 1779 - 212 pages |
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Page 111
... hope of the returning light ; But all is long oblivion , and eternal night ! TO THE UNKNOWN AUTHOR OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHE L * . I Thought , forgive my fin , the boasted fire Of poets ' fouls did long ago expire ; Of folly or of ...
... hope of the returning light ; But all is long oblivion , and eternal night ! TO THE UNKNOWN AUTHOR OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHE L * . I Thought , forgive my fin , the boasted fire Of poets ' fouls did long ago expire ; Of folly or of ...
Page 135
... hope without a crime ; When Nature's pride and Earth's delight , As through her fhady evening grove she past , And a new day did all around her cast , Could fee , nor be offended at the fight , The melting , fighing , wifhing fwain ...
... hope without a crime ; When Nature's pride and Earth's delight , As through her fhady evening grove she past , And a new day did all around her cast , Could fee , nor be offended at the fight , The melting , fighing , wifhing fwain ...
Page 141
... hope , that I too may , Receiv'd by you , as happy be as they . Ah ! may that hope be true ! nor I complain That Venus promis'd you to me in vain : For know , left you through ignorance offend The gods , ' tis heaven that me does hither ...
... hope , that I too may , Receiv'd by you , as happy be as they . Ah ! may that hope be true ! nor I complain That Venus promis'd you to me in vain : For know , left you through ignorance offend The gods , ' tis heaven that me does hither ...
Page 157
... Hope blows that already raging fire ; For hope you gave , nor can you this deny , For the great Goddess of the fane was by ; She was , and heard , and from her hallow'd shrine A fudden kind auspicious light did shine : Her ftatue feem'd ...
... Hope blows that already raging fire ; For hope you gave , nor can you this deny , For the great Goddess of the fane was by ; She was , and heard , and from her hallow'd shrine A fudden kind auspicious light did shine : Her ftatue feem'd ...
Page 202
... hope foreftal , and ev'n defire prevent . But Nature's turn'd when women woo , We hate in them what we should do ; Defire ' s afleep , and cannot wake , When women fuch advances make : Both time and charms thus Phyllis wastes , Since ...
... hope foreftal , and ev'n defire prevent . But Nature's turn'd when women woo , We hate in them what we should do ; Defire ' s afleep , and cannot wake , When women fuch advances make : Both time and charms thus Phyllis wastes , Since ...
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