The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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Page 131
... Pleasure , and the Love of Sway . That , Nature gives ; and where the lesson taught Is but to please , can Pleasure seem a fault ? Experience , this ; by Man's oppression curst , They seek the second not to lose the first . Of the ...
... Pleasure , and the Love of Sway . That , Nature gives ; and where the lesson taught Is but to please , can Pleasure seem a fault ? Experience , this ; by Man's oppression curst , They seek the second not to lose the first . Of the ...
Page 212
... pleasure , contribute to mine ; Not meanly would boast , nor would lewdly design ; Not over severe , yet not stupidly vain , For I would have the power , tho ' not give the pain . No pedant , yet learned ; no rake - helly gay , Or ...
... pleasure , contribute to mine ; Not meanly would boast , nor would lewdly design ; Not over severe , yet not stupidly vain , For I would have the power , tho ' not give the pain . No pedant , yet learned ; no rake - helly gay , Or ...
Page 332
... not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence , not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends , but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure , unreprov'd . Nor thence partakes Fresh pleasure 332 MARK AKENSIDE.
... not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence , not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends , but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure , unreprov'd . Nor thence partakes Fresh pleasure 332 MARK AKENSIDE.
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