The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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Page 326
... Scene B Bless with an Age exempt from Scorn or Crime ; UT grant , the Virtues of a temp'rate Prime An Age that melts with unperceiv'd Decay , And glides in modest Innocence away ; Whose peaceful Day Benevolence endears , Whose Night ...
... Scene B Bless with an Age exempt from Scorn or Crime ; UT grant , the Virtues of a temp'rate Prime An Age that melts with unperceiv'd Decay , And glides in modest Innocence away ; Whose peaceful Day Benevolence endears , Whose Night ...
Page 358
... scene . From them he sung , when mid his bold design , Before the Scot afflicted and aghast , The shadowy kings of ... scenes like these , which , daring to depart From sober truth , are still to nature true , And call forth fresh ...
... scene . From them he sung , when mid his bold design , Before the Scot afflicted and aghast , The shadowy kings of ... scenes like these , which , daring to depart From sober truth , are still to nature true , And call forth fresh ...
Page 583
... Scene The Task , iv , 1785 THE night was winter in his roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear . But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills , And where the woods fence off the northern blast , The season smiles ...
... Scene The Task , iv , 1785 THE night was winter in his roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear . But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills , And where the woods fence off the northern blast , The season smiles ...
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