Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest, ... By Mr. PopeBernard Lintot, 1720 |
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... e'er fpoil'd fo much as they . Some dryly plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made : These loft the fenfe , their learning to display , And thofe explain'd the meaning quite away . You then whofe ...
... e'er fpoil'd fo much as they . Some dryly plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made : These loft the fenfe , their learning to display , And thofe explain'd the meaning quite away . You then whofe ...
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... e'er fhall be . In ev'ry work regard the writer's end , Since none can compafs more than they intend ; And if the means be juft , the conduct true , Applaufe , in fpight of trivial faults , is due . As men of breeding , fometimes men of ...
... e'er fhall be . In ev'ry work regard the writer's end , Since none can compafs more than they intend ; And if the means be juft , the conduct true , Applaufe , in fpight of trivial faults , is due . As men of breeding , fometimes men of ...
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... e'er you find the cooling western breeze , In the next line , it whispers thro ' the trees ; If cryftal ftreams with pleafing murmurs creep , The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with fleep . Then , at the laft , an only couplet ...
... e'er you find the cooling western breeze , In the next line , it whispers thro ' the trees ; If cryftal ftreams with pleafing murmurs creep , The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with fleep . Then , at the laft , an only couplet ...
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... e'er one vifion touch'd thy infant thought , Of all the nurfe and all the prieft have taught , Of airy elves by moonlight thadows feen , The filver token , and the circled green , Or virgin's vifited by angel - pow'rs , With golden ...
... e'er one vifion touch'd thy infant thought , Of all the nurfe and all the prieft have taught , Of airy elves by moonlight thadows feen , The filver token , and the circled green , Or virgin's vifited by angel - pow'rs , With golden ...
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... e'er Phœbus rose , he had implor'd - Propitious heav'n , and ev'ry pow'r ador'd , But chiefly Love to Love an altar built , - Of twelve vaft . French romances , neatly gilt D 6 There There lay three garters , half a pair of gloves and ...
... e'er Phœbus rose , he had implor'd - Propitious heav'n , and ev'ry pow'r ador'd , But chiefly Love to Love an altar built , - Of twelve vaft . French romances , neatly gilt D 6 There There lay three garters , half a pair of gloves and ...
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