The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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... Pleas'd have I , in my chearful Morn of Life , When nurs'd by careless Solitude I liv'd . And sung of Nature with unceasing Joy , Pleas'd have 236 WILLIAM OLDYS ...
... Pleas'd have I , in my chearful Morn of Life , When nurs'd by careless Solitude I liv'd . And sung of Nature with unceasing Joy , Pleas'd have 236 WILLIAM OLDYS ...
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David Nichol Smith. And sung of Nature with unceasing Joy , Pleas'd have I wander'd thro ' your rough Domain ; Trod the pure Virgin - Snows , myself as pure ; Heard the Winds roar , and the big Torrent burst ; Or seen the deep fermenting ...
David Nichol Smith. And sung of Nature with unceasing Joy , Pleas'd have I wander'd thro ' your rough Domain ; Trod the pure Virgin - Snows , myself as pure ; Heard the Winds roar , and the big Torrent burst ; Or seen the deep fermenting ...
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... pleas'd revere What once we should have hated . But to Time , Not her , the praise is due : his gradual touch Has moulder'd into beauty many a tower , Which , when it frown'd with all its battlements , Was only terrible ; and many a ...
... pleas'd revere What once we should have hated . But to Time , Not her , the praise is due : his gradual touch Has moulder'd into beauty many a tower , Which , when it frown'd with all its battlements , Was only terrible ; and many a ...
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