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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... 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 tear My breast ...
... 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 tear My breast ...
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... pleas'd , Advising peace : for such another field They dreaded worse than Hell : so much the fear Of thunder and the sword of Michaël Wrought still within them , and no less desire To found this nether empire , which might rise By ...
... pleas'd , Advising peace : for such another field They dreaded worse than Hell : so much the fear Of thunder and the sword of Michaël Wrought still within them , and no less desire To found this nether empire , which might rise By ...
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... pleas'd , and with attractive graces won The most averse , thee chiefly , who full oft Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing Becam❜st enamour'd , and such joy thou took'st With me in secret , that my womb conceiv'd A growing burden ...
... pleas'd , and with attractive graces won The most averse , thee chiefly , who full oft Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing Becam❜st enamour'd , and such joy thou took'st With me in secret , that my womb conceiv'd A growing burden ...
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... pleas'd , and Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile , to hear His famine should he fill'd ; and blest his maw Destin'd to that good hour : no less rejoic'd His mother bad , and thus bespake her sire . " The key of this infernal pit by ...
... pleas'd , and Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile , to hear His famine should he fill'd ; and blest his maw Destin'd to that good hour : no less rejoic'd His mother bad , and thus bespake her sire . " The key of this infernal pit by ...
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... pleas'd ; on me let Death wreak all his rage ; Under his gloomy power I shall not long Lie vanquish'd ; thou hast given me to possess Life in myself for ever ; by thee I live , Though now to Death Í yield , and am his due All that of me ...
... pleas'd ; on me let Death wreak all his rage ; Under his gloomy power I shall not long Lie vanquish'd ; thou hast given me to possess Life in myself for ever ; by thee I live , Though now to Death Í yield , and am his due All that of me ...
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