The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry, 2. köideW. Plant Piercy, 1809 |
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... ev'n in slumber seems to move the spheres . But lo ! the faithless page , with stealing tread , Advances to the champion's naked head ; With his sharp dagger wounds his bleeding breast , And steeps his eyelids in eternal rest : Then ...
... ev'n in slumber seems to move the spheres . But lo ! the faithless page , with stealing tread , Advances to the champion's naked head ; With his sharp dagger wounds his bleeding breast , And steeps his eyelids in eternal rest : Then ...
Page 94
... Ev'n Zeno's self , and Epictetus old , This fell abyss had shudder'd to behold : Had Socrates , for godlike virtue famed , And wisest of the sons of men proclaim'd , Beheld this scene of frenzy and distress , His soul had trembled to ...
... Ev'n Zeno's self , and Epictetus old , This fell abyss had shudder'd to behold : Had Socrates , for godlike virtue famed , And wisest of the sons of men proclaim'd , Beheld this scene of frenzy and distress , His soul had trembled to ...
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... d To love ; nor loves he sooner , than despairs . From morn till ev'n her passing wheels he guards Back to Euphrates . Often , as she mounts , Or quits the car , his arm her weight sustains F2 GLOVER . ] € 99 TERIBAZUS AND ARIANA .
... d To love ; nor loves he sooner , than despairs . From morn till ev'n her passing wheels he guards Back to Euphrates . Often , as she mounts , Or quits the car , his arm her weight sustains F2 GLOVER . ] € 99 TERIBAZUS AND ARIANA .
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... Ev'n at the hallow'd lamp she lights her torch , And holds it flaming to each virgin breast . But , since the legends of monastic bliss By fraud are fabled , and by youth believ'd , Unbought experience learn from my distress , Oh ! mark ...
... Ev'n at the hallow'd lamp she lights her torch , And holds it flaming to each virgin breast . But , since the legends of monastic bliss By fraud are fabled , and by youth believ'd , Unbought experience learn from my distress , Oh ! mark ...
Page 149
... corse he strews the rattling dust , The sternest heart will raise compassion's sigh ; Ev'n then , no longer to his child unjust , The tears may trickle from a father's eye . EDWIN AND EMMA . [ MALLET . ] FAR in JERNINGHAM . ] 149 THE NUN .
... corse he strews the rattling dust , The sternest heart will raise compassion's sigh ; Ev'n then , no longer to his child unjust , The tears may trickle from a father's eye . EDWIN AND EMMA . [ MALLET . ] FAR in JERNINGHAM . ] 149 THE NUN .
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