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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... 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 Epistle from ...
... 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 Epistle from ...
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... maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place ( Though loth and angry she to part With the possession of my heart ) To ...
... maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place ( Though loth and angry she to part With the possession of my heart ) To ...
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... maid ; To whom ensued a vacancy : Thousand worse passions then possest The interregnum of my breast ; Bless me from such an anarchy ! Gentle Henrietta then , And a third Mary , next began ; Then Joan , and Jane , and Audria ; And then a ...
... maid ; To whom ensued a vacancy : Thousand worse passions then possest The interregnum of my breast ; Bless me from such an anarchy ! Gentle Henrietta then , And a third Mary , next began ; Then Joan , and Jane , and Audria ; And then a ...
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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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... maid . For Solomon , he liv'd at ease , and full Of honour , wealth , high fare , aim'd not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state ; Thence to the bait of women lay expos'd : But he , whom we attempt , is wiser far Than Solomon ...
... maid . For Solomon , he liv'd at ease , and full Of honour , wealth , high fare , aim'd not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state ; Thence to the bait of women lay expos'd : But he , whom we attempt , is wiser far Than Solomon ...
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