The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... mind some lines on the death of queen Mary , written by Barnes , of whom I should not have expected to find an imitator ; But thou , O Muse ! whose sweet nepenthean tongue , Can charm the pangs of death with deathless song , Can'st ...
... mind some lines on the death of queen Mary , written by Barnes , of whom I should not have expected to find an imitator ; But thou , O Muse ! whose sweet nepenthean tongue , Can charm the pangs of death with deathless song , Can'st ...
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... mind to please , To think , to act with elegance and ease ! Say , wilt thou listen while I tune the string , And sing to thee , who gav'st me ease to sing ? Unskill'd in verse , I haunt the silent grove ; Yet lowly shepherds sing to ...
... mind to please , To think , to act with elegance and ease ! Say , wilt thou listen while I tune the string , And sing to thee , who gav'st me ease to sing ? Unskill'd in verse , I haunt the silent grove ; Yet lowly shepherds sing to ...
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... mind . Youth was her too inflaming time ; This , her more habitable clime : How must she then each heart engage , Who blooms like youth , is wise like age Thus the rich orange - trees produce At once both ornament , and use : Here ...
... mind . Youth was her too inflaming time ; This , her more habitable clime : How must she then each heart engage , Who blooms like youth , is wise like age Thus the rich orange - trees produce At once both ornament , and use : Here ...
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... mind ; VARIATIONS . So glorious is thy morn of life begun , That all to thee with admiration run , Turn Persians , and adore the rising Sun. So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be A child , as poets say ; sure thou art he . Fair ...
... mind ; VARIATIONS . So glorious is thy morn of life begun , That all to thee with admiration run , Turn Persians , and adore the rising Sun. So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be A child , as poets say ; sure thou art he . Fair ...
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... mind with facts and images , seizing all that his authors presented with undistinguishing voracity , and with an appetite for knowledge too eager to be nice . In a mind like his , however , all the faculties were at once involuntarily ...
... mind with facts and images , seizing all that his authors presented with undistinguishing voracity , and with an appetite for knowledge too eager to be nice . In a mind like his , however , all the faculties were at once involuntarily ...
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