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her neck - her chest Took possession of the plain ; Does she move , or does she
rest ? In an hearse she rode reclin ' d , Drawn by screech - owls slow and blind :
As those roguish eyes advance , Close to her , with printless feet , Let me catch ...
her neck - her chest Took possession of the plain ; Does she move , or does she
rest ? In an hearse she rode reclin ' d , Drawn by screech - owls slow and blind :
As those roguish eyes advance , Close to her , with printless feet , Let me catch ...
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And on bis scales as the gilt Sun - beams play , † In Penhurst ' s plains when
Waller , sick with love , Ten thousand variegated dies Has found some silent
solitary grove , In copious streams of lustre rise , Where the vague Moon - beams
pour a ...
And on bis scales as the gilt Sun - beams play , † In Penhurst ' s plains when
Waller , sick with love , Ten thousand variegated dies Has found some silent
solitary grove , In copious streams of lustre rise , Where the vague Moon - beams
pour a ...
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And Cantium ' s plains beneath ; the Apennine Yeomen and countrymen , attend
my song : Of a free Italy , whose chalky sides Whether you sbiver in the marshy
Weald 4 , With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay , Egregious shepherds of ...
And Cantium ' s plains beneath ; the Apennine Yeomen and countrymen , attend
my song : Of a free Italy , whose chalky sides Whether you sbiver in the marshy
Weald 4 , With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay , Egregious shepherds of ...
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... I must take the liberty construction , unnatural metaphors , with a proto insist ,
that you will not drop this undertak fusion of epithets , inconsistent for the most
part ing . with the real or figurative meaning of his words , To speak in plain terms
; I ...
... I must take the liberty construction , unnatural metaphors , with a proto insist ,
that you will not drop this undertak fusion of epithets , inconsistent for the most
part ing . with the real or figurative meaning of his words , To speak in plain terms
; I ...
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Swift o ' er the level of the liquid plain , Guides me with gentle gale , and lights on
Earth again , MATERIES GAUDET ! ... uncultivated plains , Arva inarata , palus
hurrenda voragine crebrà Where torpid sloth , and foggy dulness reigns , Ante ...
Swift o ' er the level of the liquid plain , Guides me with gentle gale , and lights on
Earth again , MATERIES GAUDET ! ... uncultivated plains , Arva inarata , palus
hurrenda voragine crebrà Where torpid sloth , and foggy dulness reigns , Ante ...
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Page 78 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 493 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 95 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 492 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
Page 492 - All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron — forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...
Page 492 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 500 - Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see, Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restor'd to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And ev'ry care resign: And shall we never, never part, My life, — my all that's mine. "No, never, from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true; The sigh that rends thy constant heart, Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 493 - Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
Page 493 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 493 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
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| Title | Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson 16. köide of The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Alexander Chalmers 16. köide of Works of the English poets from Chaucer to Cowper : in twenty-one volumes / S. Johnson; Alexander Chalmers |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Alexander Chalmers |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1810 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 jaan. 2008 |
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