Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest, ... By Mr. PopeBernard Lintot, 1720 |
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... laft numbers flow'd from * Cowley's tongue . O early loft ! what tears the river shed , When the fad pomp along his banks was led ? His drooping fwans on ev'ry note expire , And on his willows hung each Mufe's lyre . Since fate ...
... laft numbers flow'd from * Cowley's tongue . O early loft ! what tears the river shed , When the fad pomp along his banks was led ? His drooping fwans on ev'ry note expire , And on his willows hung each Mufe's lyre . Since fate ...
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... laft .. Some neither can for wits nor critics pafs , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , num'rous in our ifle ,. As half - form'd infects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things , one knows not ...
... laft .. Some neither can for wits nor critics pafs , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , num'rous in our ifle ,. As half - form'd infects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things , one knows not ...
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... laft , the meanest of your fons infpire , ( That on weak wings , from far , pursues your flights ; 200 Glows while he reads , but trembles as he writes ) To teach vain wits a fcience little known , T'admire fuperior fenfe , and doubt ...
... laft , the meanest of your fons infpire , ( That on weak wings , from far , pursues your flights ; 200 Glows while he reads , but trembles as he writes ) To teach vain wits a fcience little known , T'admire fuperior fenfe , and doubt ...
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... laft , an only couplet fraught With fome unmeaning thing they call a thought , A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along . Leave fuch to tune their own dull rhymes , and know What's ...
... laft , an only couplet fraught With fome unmeaning thing they call a thought , A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along . Leave fuch to tune their own dull rhymes , and know What's ...
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... past , Enlights the prefent , and fhall warm the laft . ( Tho ' each may feel encreases and decays , And fee now clearer and now darker days ) C 3 400 Regard Regard not then if wit be old or new , and TRANSLATIONS . · 53.
... past , Enlights the prefent , and fhall warm the laft . ( Tho ' each may feel encreases and decays , And fee now clearer and now darker days ) C 3 400 Regard Regard not then if wit be old or new , and TRANSLATIONS . · 53.
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