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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... ev'ry scene to perfect joy . On a bank of fragrant thyme , Beneath yon stately , shadowy pine , We'll with the well - disguised hook Cheat the tenants of the brook ; Or where coy Daphne's thickest shade Drives amorous Phœbus from the ...
... ev'ry scene to perfect joy . On a bank of fragrant thyme , Beneath yon stately , shadowy pine , We'll with the well - disguised hook Cheat the tenants of the brook ; Or where coy Daphne's thickest shade Drives amorous Phœbus from the ...
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... ev'ry wood , And ev'ry hedge unintroduc'd intrudes . When such the merit of the candidates , Easy is the election ; but , my friend , Would'st thou ne'er fail , to Kent direct thy way , Where no one shall be frustrated that seeks Ought ...
... ev'ry wood , And ev'ry hedge unintroduc'd intrudes . When such the merit of the candidates , Easy is the election ; but , my friend , Would'st thou ne'er fail , to Kent direct thy way , Where no one shall be frustrated that seeks Ought ...
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... ev'ry muscle , ev'ry nerve extend , To save our crop from ruin , and ourselves . Soon as bright Chanticleer explodes the night With flutt'ring wings , and hymns the new - born day , The bugle - horn inspire , whose clam'rous bray Shall ...
... ev'ry muscle , ev'ry nerve extend , To save our crop from ruin , and ourselves . Soon as bright Chanticleer explodes the night With flutt'ring wings , and hymns the new - born day , The bugle - horn inspire , whose clam'rous bray Shall ...
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... ev'ry part , And ev'ry feature prais'd , She stole into my heart . In her bewitching eyes Ten thousand loves appear ; There Cupid basking lies , His shafts are hoarded there . Her blooming cheeks are dy'd With colour all her own ...
... ev'ry part , And ev'ry feature prais'd , She stole into my heart . In her bewitching eyes Ten thousand loves appear ; There Cupid basking lies , His shafts are hoarded there . Her blooming cheeks are dy'd With colour all her own ...
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... ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe . A little learning is a dang'rous thing , Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , And drinking largely sobers us again . Fir'd at first sight with what ...
... ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe . A little learning is a dang'rous thing , Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , And drinking largely sobers us again . Fir'd at first sight with what ...
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