Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J.Woodward, 1836 |
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... commands the vision of the night : directs Fly hence , delusive dream , and , light as air , To Agamemnon's royal tent ... command ; ( For doubtful fame distracts mankind below , And nothing can we tell , and nothing know ) Without your ...
... commands the vision of the night : directs Fly hence , delusive dream , and , light as air , To Agamemnon's royal tent ... command ; ( For doubtful fame distracts mankind below , And nothing can we tell , and nothing know ) Without your ...
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... command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . Be Homer's works your study and delight , Read them by day , and meditate by night : 60 Thence form your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the muses upward to their ...
... command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . Be Homer's works your study and delight , Read them by day , and meditate by night : 60 Thence form your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the muses upward to their ...
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... command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite , And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; 480 540 Nay , wits had pensions , and young lords had wit : The fair sat panting at a courtier's play ...
... command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite , And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; 480 540 Nay , wits had pensions , and young lords had wit : The fair sat panting at a courtier's play ...
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... command , I can't - indeed now - I so hate a whore ! ' — Just as a blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull , And thanks his stars he was not born a fool ; So from a sister sinner you shall hear , ' How strangely you expose yourself my dear ...
... command , I can't - indeed now - I so hate a whore ! ' — Just as a blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull , And thanks his stars he was not born a fool ; So from a sister sinner you shall hear , ' How strangely you expose yourself my dear ...
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... command . Barbarian , stay ! that bloody stroke restrain : The crime was common , common be the pain . I can no more ; by shame , by rage suppress'd , Let tears and burning blushes speak the rest . Canst thou forget that sad , that ...
... command . Barbarian , stay ! that bloody stroke restrain : The crime was common , common be the pain . I can no more ; by shame , by rage suppress'd , Let tears and burning blushes speak the rest . Canst thou forget that sad , that ...
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