The Book of Gems: Pomfret to BloomfieldSamuel Carter Hall Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
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... which strong art with stronger nature joins , Must grant his fancy does the best excel ; His thoughts so tender , and express'd so well : With all those moderns , men of steady sense , 4 POMFRET . THE BIRTH OF VANESSA The Choice.
... which strong art with stronger nature joins , Must grant his fancy does the best excel ; His thoughts so tender , and express'd so well : With all those moderns , men of steady sense , 4 POMFRET . THE BIRTH OF VANESSA The Choice.
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... nature strong , And the bright lamp of life continue long , I'd freely take ; and , as I did possess , The bounteous Author of my plenty bless . * Would bounteous Heaven once more indulge , I'd choose ( For who would so much ...
... nature strong , And the bright lamp of life continue long , I'd freely take ; and , as I did possess , The bounteous Author of my plenty bless . * Would bounteous Heaven once more indulge , I'd choose ( For who would so much ...
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... natural , or chance deformity . Let not her years exceed , if equal thine ; For women past their vigour , soon decline : Her fortune competent ; and , if thy sight Can reach so far , take care ' tis gather'd right . If thine's enough ...
... natural , or chance deformity . Let not her years exceed , if equal thine ; For women past their vigour , soon decline : Her fortune competent ; and , if thy sight Can reach so far , take care ' tis gather'd right . If thine's enough ...
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... he did not love her ; so upon that human nature which he would have us believe he loved as little , he was heaping services not to be abated by time . SWIFT . In a glad hour Lucina's aid Produc'd on 8 JONATHAN SWIFT . THE PALACE.
... he did not love her ; so upon that human nature which he would have us believe he loved as little , he was heaping services not to be abated by time . SWIFT . In a glad hour Lucina's aid Produc'd on 8 JONATHAN SWIFT . THE PALACE.
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... natural and passionate characteristics of tragedy , in return for the embodiment it seems to present of those remote visions of Roman grandeur and stoicism which were so familiar to their youth . In the more subtle accomplishments of ...
... natural and passionate characteristics of tragedy , in return for the embodiment it seems to present of those remote visions of Roman grandeur and stoicism which were so familiar to their youth . In the more subtle accomplishments of ...
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