The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... beauty wore , Or look'd so amiable before ! You graces give to a disease , Adorn the pain , and make it please : Thus burning incense sheds perfumes , Still fragrant as it still consumer . Nor can even Sickness , which disarms All other ...
... beauty wore , Or look'd so amiable before ! You graces give to a disease , Adorn the pain , and make it please : Thus burning incense sheds perfumes , Still fragrant as it still consumer . Nor can even Sickness , which disarms All other ...
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... beauty bloom , The arms denounce an instant doom . Thus , when the Britons in array Their ensigns to the Sun display , In the same flag are lilies shown , And angry lions sternly frown ; On high the glittering standard flies , And ...
... beauty bloom , The arms denounce an instant doom . Thus , when the Britons in array Their ensigns to the Sun display , In the same flag are lilies shown , And angry lions sternly frown ; On high the glittering standard flies , And ...
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... beauty pleads ! along the plain The stag he chases , or beguiles The furious boar into his toils . For you the blooming ivy grows , Proud to adorn your learned brows ; Patron of letters you arise , Grow to a god , and mount the skies ...
... beauty pleads ! along the plain The stag he chases , or beguiles The furious boar into his toils . For you the blooming ivy grows , Proud to adorn your learned brows ; Patron of letters you arise , Grow to a god , and mount the skies ...
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... beauty with dumb eloquence persuades , Where passions are beheld in picture wrought , And animated colours look a thought : Rare art ! on whose command all nature waits ! It copies all Omnipotence creates : Here crown'd with mountains ...
... beauty with dumb eloquence persuades , Where passions are beheld in picture wrought , And animated colours look a thought : Rare art ! on whose command all nature waits ! It copies all Omnipotence creates : Here crown'd with mountains ...
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... beauty boast , -n at thirty reigns a toast , And , like the Sun as he declines , More mildly , but more sweetly shines The hand of Time alone disarms Her face of its superfluous charms : But adds , for every grace resign'd , A thousand ...
... beauty boast , -n at thirty reigns a toast , And , like the Sun as he declines , More mildly , but more sweetly shines The hand of Time alone disarms Her face of its superfluous charms : But adds , for every grace resign'd , A thousand ...
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Adrastus ancient Bavius beauty behold beneath blest breast breath bright Britons charms clouds courser critics Cynthus death deep delight dreadful Dulness Dunciad Earth edition Essay on Criticism Ev'n eyes fair fame fate fire flame flood fools genius glory goddess grace Greece groves hand happy heart Heaven hero Homer honour Iliad Jove king labour live lord lord Bolingbroke lyre mankind mighty mind mortal Muse Nature never night numbers nymph o'er once passion peace plain pleas'd poem poet Pope praise pride proud racter rage reign rise Rome round sacred Sappho satire scene shade shine shore sighs sing skies smile soft song soul spring streams sweet swell Swift tears tempest thee thine thou thought thunder toil trembling truth verse Virgil virgin virtue waves wild winds wings youth