The Works of the English Poets, 10. köideR. Hett, 1779 - 303 pages |
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... beauty make their boast , Though beautiful is well in pious loft ; So loft as ftar - light is diffolv'd away , And melts into the brightnefs of the day ; Or gold about the royal diadem , Loft to improve the luftre of the gem . What can ...
... beauty make their boast , Though beautiful is well in pious loft ; So loft as ftar - light is diffolv'd away , And melts into the brightnefs of the day ; Or gold about the royal diadem , Loft to improve the luftre of the gem . What can ...
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... beauty , and a fortune too . Of moral knowledge poefy was queen , And still he might , had wanton wits not been ; Who , like ill guardians , liv'd themselves at large , And , not content with that , debauch'd their charge . Like fome ...
... beauty , and a fortune too . Of moral knowledge poefy was queen , And still he might , had wanton wits not been ; Who , like ill guardians , liv'd themselves at large , And , not content with that , debauch'd their charge . Like fome ...
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... beauty , your inheritance : So great a foul , fuch sweetness join'd in one , Could only fpring from noble Grandifon . You , like the stars , not by reflection bright , Are born to your own heaven , and your own light ; Like them are ...
... beauty , your inheritance : So great a foul , fuch sweetness join'd in one , Could only fpring from noble Grandifon . You , like the stars , not by reflection bright , Are born to your own heaven , and your own light ; Like them are ...
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... beauty , fhews a master's hand . EPISTLE THE FIFTH . To the Earl of RoscoMMON , on his excellent Effay on Tranflated Verse . Hether the fruitful Nile , or Tyrian fhore , WH The feeds of arts and infant fcience bore , ' Tis fure the ...
... beauty , fhews a master's hand . EPISTLE THE FIFTH . To the Earl of RoscoMMON , on his excellent Effay on Tranflated Verse . Hether the fruitful Nile , or Tyrian fhore , WH The feeds of arts and infant fcience bore , ' Tis fure the ...
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... beauty , and , the court of love , The Mufes droop'd , with their forfaken arts , And the fad Cupids broke their useless darts : Our fruitful plains to wilds and defarts turn'd , Like Eden's face , when banish'd man it mourn'd . Love ...
... beauty , and , the court of love , The Mufes droop'd , with their forfaken arts , And the fad Cupids broke their useless darts : Our fruitful plains to wilds and defarts turn'd , Like Eden's face , when banish'd man it mourn'd . Love ...
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