The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, JohnsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... Muse and me ; For once endure the pain to think , Oh ! sweet insensibility ! Sister of peace and indolence , Bring , Muse , bring numbers soft and slow , Elaborately void of sense , And sweetly thoughtless let them flow . Near some ...
... Muse and me ; For once endure the pain to think , Oh ! sweet insensibility ! Sister of peace and indolence , Bring , Muse , bring numbers soft and slow , Elaborately void of sense , And sweetly thoughtless let them flow . Near some ...
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... Muse shall sing In tend'rest lays thy fate . What time by thee scholastic pride Takes his precise , pedantic stride , Nor on thy mis'ry casts a care , The stream of love ne'er from his heart Flows out , to act fair pity's part ; But ...
... Muse shall sing In tend'rest lays thy fate . What time by thee scholastic pride Takes his precise , pedantic stride , Nor on thy mis'ry casts a care , The stream of love ne'er from his heart Flows out , to act fair pity's part ; But ...
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... Muse shall hold it up to popular view Where the more candid and judicious few Shall think the bright original they see , The likeness nobly lost in the identity . Oh hadst thou liv'd in better days than these , F'er to excel by all was ...
... Muse shall hold it up to popular view Where the more candid and judicious few Shall think the bright original they see , The likeness nobly lost in the identity . Oh hadst thou liv'd in better days than these , F'er to excel by all was ...
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... Muse's pride , I long to see the blooming maid Chang'd to the blushing bride . So shall thy pleasure and thy praise Increase with the increasing days , And present joys exceed the past ; To give and to receive delight , Shall be thy ...
... Muse's pride , I long to see the blooming maid Chang'd to the blushing bride . So shall thy pleasure and thy praise Increase with the increasing days , And present joys exceed the past ; To give and to receive delight , Shall be thy ...
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... Muse , and deign t ' assist , Great Poet of the Universe , his song . Before this earthly planet wound her course Round Light's perennial fountain , before Light Herself ' gan shine , and at th ' inspiring word Shot to existence in a ...
... Muse , and deign t ' assist , Great Poet of the Universe , his song . Before this earthly planet wound her course Round Light's perennial fountain , before Light Herself ' gan shine , and at th ' inspiring word Shot to existence in a ...
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