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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... head of English poetry . He was interred in West- minster Abbey , where an inscription was placed over his grave , familiarly expressive of the reputation he had acquired among his countrymen : it was , " O rare Ben Jonson . " Six ...
... head of English poetry . He was interred in West- minster Abbey , where an inscription was placed over his grave , familiarly expressive of the reputation he had acquired among his countrymen : it was , " O rare Ben Jonson . " Six ...
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... head , Thus the pleas'd Septimius said : 66 My dearest Acme , if I be Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him ...
... head , Thus the pleas'd Septimius said : 66 My dearest Acme , if I be Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him ...
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... head : And cloudy Care has often took A gentle beamy smile , reflected from thy look . At thy appearance , Fear itself grows bold ; Thy sun - shine melts away his cold . Encouraged at the sight of thee , But , where firm bodies thy free ...
... head : And cloudy Care has often took A gentle beamy smile , reflected from thy look . At thy appearance , Fear itself grows bold ; Thy sun - shine melts away his cold . Encouraged at the sight of thee , But , where firm bodies thy free ...
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... head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His half - regain'd Eurydice . These delights if thou canst give , Mirth , with thee I mean ...
... head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His half - regain'd Eurydice . These delights if thou canst give , Mirth , with thee I mean ...
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... head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye ...
... head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye ...
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