The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... those who always lov'd , now love the more . From Venus ' bower to Delia's lodge repairs A virgin train complete with modeft airs : " Chaste Delia , grant our fuit ! or fhun the wood , " Nor ftain this facred lawn with favage blood ...
... those who always lov'd , now love the more . From Venus ' bower to Delia's lodge repairs A virgin train complete with modeft airs : " Chaste Delia , grant our fuit ! or fhun the wood , " Nor ftain this facred lawn with favage blood ...
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... those who always lov'd , now love the more . Gay with the bloom of all her opening year , The Queen at Hybla bids her throne appear ; And there prefides ; and there the favourite band ( Her fmiling graces ) fhare the great command . Now ...
... those who always lov'd , now love the more . Gay with the bloom of all her opening year , The Queen at Hybla bids her throne appear ; And there prefides ; and there the favourite band ( Her fmiling graces ) fhare the great command . Now ...
Page 43
... those Frogs that have the foul to die . The chief retires , the croud the challenge hear , And proudly fwelling yet perplex'd appear : Much they refent , yet much their monarch blame , Who , rifing , fpoke to clear his tainted fame : O ...
... those Frogs that have the foul to die . The chief retires , the croud the challenge hear , And proudly fwelling yet perplex'd appear : Much they refent , yet much their monarch blame , Who , rifing , fpoke to clear his tainted fame : O ...
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... Those clamorous fools have loft my favour too . For late , when all the conflict ceas'd at night , When my ftretch'd finews work'd with eager fight , When , spent with glorious toil , I left the field , And funk for flumber on my ...
... Those clamorous fools have loft my favour too . For late , when all the conflict ceas'd at night , When my ftretch'd finews work'd with eager fight , When , spent with glorious toil , I left the field , And funk for flumber on my ...
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... Those with bending ofier bound , That nameless heave the crumbled ground ,, Quick to the glancing thought difclofe , Where toil and poverty repofe . The flat smooth stones that bear a name , The chiffel's flender help to fame ( Which ...
... Those with bending ofier bound , That nameless heave the crumbled ground ,, Quick to the glancing thought difclofe , Where toil and poverty repofe . The flat smooth stones that bear a name , The chiffel's flender help to fame ( Which ...
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