Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 pages "The object of this work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical poets, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with biographical and critical notices of their authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth" -- Page [i]. |
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... Nut - Brown Maid ...... 240 To the Earl of Warwick , on the Death of Mr. Addison 322 Alma : or , the Progress of the Mind . In Three Cantos . Canto I. 249 An Imitation of the Prophesy of Nereus . From Horace . Book II . Ode XV . 246 An ...
... Nut - Brown Maid ...... 240 To the Earl of Warwick , on the Death of Mr. Addison 322 Alma : or , the Progress of the Mind . In Three Cantos . Canto I. 249 An Imitation of the Prophesy of Nereus . From Horace . Book II . Ode XV . 246 An ...
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... maid . Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sun - shine holiday , Till the live - long day - light fail : Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a feat , How faery Mab the ...
... maid . Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sun - shine holiday , Till the live - long day - light fail : Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a feat , How faery Mab the ...
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... Nut - brown Maid , modernised from an antique original ; and " Solomon , " the idea of which is taken from the book of Ecclesiastes . These are harmonious in their versification , splendid and correct in their diction , and copious in ...
... Nut - brown Maid , modernised from an antique original ; and " Solomon , " the idea of which is taken from the book of Ecclesiastes . These are harmonious in their versification , splendid and correct in their diction , and copious in ...
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... Nut - Brown Maid . TO CLOE . THOU , to whose eyes I bend , at whose command ( Though low my voice , though artless be my hand ) , I take the sprightly reed , and sing , and play , Careless of what the censuring world may say : Bright ...
... Nut - Brown Maid . TO CLOE . THOU , to whose eyes I bend , at whose command ( Though low my voice , though artless be my hand ) , I take the sprightly reed , and sing , and play , Careless of what the censuring world may say : Bright ...
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... Nut - brown Maid ; Which always bless'd her eyes , and own'd her power ; And bid her oft adieu , yet added more . Now night advanc'd . The house in sleep were laid ; The nurse experienc'd , and the prying maid , And , last , that sprite ...
... Nut - brown Maid ; Which always bless'd her eyes , and own'd her power ; And bid her oft adieu , yet added more . Now night advanc'd . The house in sleep were laid ; The nurse experienc'd , and the prying maid , And , last , that sprite ...
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