The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... Fame January and May . From Chaucer The Wife of Bath , her Prologue . From Chaucer . The First Book of Statius his Thebais The Fable of Dryope . From Ovid's Meta- morphoses , Book ix Page Page ib . MISCELLANIES . 177 On receiving from ...
... Fame January and May . From Chaucer The Wife of Bath , her Prologue . From Chaucer . The First Book of Statius his Thebais The Fable of Dryope . From Ovid's Meta- morphoses , Book ix Page Page ib . MISCELLANIES . 177 On receiving from ...
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... fame . There are , who with fond transport praise The chariot thundering in the race ; Where conquest won , and palmis bestow'd , Lift the proud mortal to a god . The man who courts the people's voice , And doats on offices and noise ...
... fame . There are , who with fond transport praise The chariot thundering in the race ; Where conquest won , and palmis bestow'd , Lift the proud mortal to a god . The man who courts the people's voice , And doats on offices and noise ...
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... Fame , who liv'd in ancient days : And lo ! with haughty stalk the warrior treads ! Stern legislators , frowning , lift their heads !. I see proud victors in triumphal cars , Chiefs , kings , and heroes , seam'd with glorious scars ! Or ...
... Fame , who liv'd in ancient days : And lo ! with haughty stalk the warrior treads ! Stern legislators , frowning , lift their heads !. I see proud victors in triumphal cars , Chiefs , kings , and heroes , seam'd with glorious scars ! Or ...
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... fame , And Cleopatra ' s but a name . Time must indent that heavenly brow , And thou must be , what they are now This moral to the fair disclose , Queen of fragrance , lovely Rose . BELINDA AT THE BATH . WHILE in these fountains bright ...
... fame , And Cleopatra ' s but a name . Time must indent that heavenly brow , And thou must be , what they are now This moral to the fair disclose , Queen of fragrance , lovely Rose . BELINDA AT THE BATH . WHILE in these fountains bright ...
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... fame , he gives thy genuine thought , So Tully publish'd what Lucretius wrote ; Prun'd by his care , thy laurels loftier grow , And bloom afresh on thy immortal brow . [ vades , Thus when thy draughts , O Raphael , Time in- And the bold ...
... fame , he gives thy genuine thought , So Tully publish'd what Lucretius wrote ; Prun'd by his care , thy laurels loftier grow , And bloom afresh on thy immortal brow . [ vades , Thus when thy draughts , O Raphael , Time in- And the bold ...
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