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A Masque 53 I , Tåleness ... 17 Reason and Resignation A Pable 55 II . To
Ethelinda , on her doing my Verses New Version of the Psalms . CXLVIII . 56 the
Honour of wearing them in her Ode to Lord Barnard , on his Accession to that
Bosom .
A Masque 53 I , Tåleness ... 17 Reason and Resignation A Pable 55 II . To
Ethelinda , on her doing my Verses New Version of the Psalms . CXLVIII . 56 the
Honour of wearing them in her Ode to Lord Barnard , on his Accession to that
Bosom .
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Mr. Parrer ib . scious shades 438 Genius and Valour : a pastoral Poem . Written
To Mrs. ****** , in Tears for the Death of a in honour of a Sister - Kingdom , 1763
419 Priend , 1762 ib . To Mrs. Gillman ib . Elegy I. 422 Fragment of a Poem
written ...
Mr. Parrer ib . scious shades 438 Genius and Valour : a pastoral Poem . Written
To Mrs. ****** , in Tears for the Death of a in honour of a Sister - Kingdom , 1763
419 Priend , 1762 ib . To Mrs. Gillman ib . Elegy I. 422 Fragment of a Poem
written ...
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Enter the Princess Perriwinkle sola , attended by fourteen maids of great honour .
« Sure such a wretch as I was never born , By all the world deserted and forlorn ;
This bitter - sweet , this honey - gall to prove , And all the oil and vinegar of love ...
Enter the Princess Perriwinkle sola , attended by fourteen maids of great honour .
« Sure such a wretch as I was never born , By all the world deserted and forlorn ;
This bitter - sweet , this honey - gall to prove , And all the oil and vinegar of love ...
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The radiations vanish from her Sun - bright eye , And thou chief honour of the veil
, And her breast , the throne of love , Hail , harmonious Virgin , hail ! Can hardly ,
hardly , hardly move , When Death shall blot out every name , ' To send th ...
The radiations vanish from her Sun - bright eye , And thou chief honour of the veil
, And her breast , the throne of love , Hail , harmonious Virgin , hail ! Can hardly ,
hardly , hardly move , When Death shall blot out every name , ' To send th ...
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... unceasing plaudits , and with them In the grand chorus mix his feeble voice ?
He may - if thou , who from the witless babe ETERNITY OF THE SUPREME
Ordainest honour , glory , strength and praise , BEING , Uplift th'unpinion'd Muse ,
and ...
... unceasing plaudits , and with them In the grand chorus mix his feeble voice ?
He may - if thou , who from the witless babe ETERNITY OF THE SUPREME
Ordainest honour , glory , strength and praise , BEING , Uplift th'unpinion'd Muse ,
and ...
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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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