Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest, ... By Mr. PopeBernard Lintot, 1720 |
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... maids ! Unlock your fprings , and open all your fhades . Granville commands ; your aid O Mufes bring ! What Mufe for Granville can refufe to fing ? The groves of Eden , vanifh'd now fo long , Live in defcription , and look green in fong ...
... maids ! Unlock your fprings , and open all your fhades . Granville commands ; your aid O Mufes bring ! What Mufe for Granville can refufe to fing ? The groves of Eden , vanifh'd now fo long , Live in defcription , and look green in fong ...
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... maid Beyond the foreft's verdant limits ftray'd , Pan faw and lov'd , and burning with defire Purfu'd her flight , hér flight increas'd his fire . Not half fo fwift the trembling doves can fly , When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid ...
... maid Beyond the foreft's verdant limits ftray'd , Pan faw and lov'd , and burning with defire Purfu'd her flight , hér flight increas'd his fire . Not half fo fwift the trembling doves can fly , When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid ...
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... maids , Delight no more - O thou my voice infpire , Who touch'd Ifaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! · Rapt into future times , the Bard begun , A Virgin fhall conceive , a Virgin bear a Son ! B 2 From a From Jeffe's root behold a branch ...
... maids , Delight no more - O thou my voice infpire , Who touch'd Ifaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! · Rapt into future times , the Bard begun , A Virgin fhall conceive , a Virgin bear a Son ! B 2 From a From Jeffe's root behold a branch ...
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... maid ,. Set up themselves , and drove a fep'rate trade ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate moft the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' pothecaries , taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's ...
... maid ,. Set up themselves , and drove a fep'rate trade ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate moft the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' pothecaries , taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's ...
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... maids alone and children are reveal'd : What tho ' no credit doubting wits may give ? The fair and innocent shall still believe . Know then , unnumber'd fpirits round thee fly , The light militia of the lower fky ; Thefe , tho ' unfeen ...
... maids alone and children are reveal'd : What tho ' no credit doubting wits may give ? The fair and innocent shall still believe . Know then , unnumber'd fpirits round thee fly , The light militia of the lower fky ; Thefe , tho ' unfeen ...
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