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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... golden mean , The gay meridian is seen , Ere decays the lamp of light , [ night— And length'ning shades stretch out to Seize , seize the hint - each hour improve ( This is morality in love ) Lend , lend thine hand - O let me view Thy ...
... golden mean , The gay meridian is seen , Ere decays the lamp of light , [ night— And length'ning shades stretch out to Seize , seize the hint - each hour improve ( This is morality in love ) Lend , lend thine hand - O let me view Thy ...
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... golden Sun. Nor shall the verdant vallies then remain Safe in their meek submission ; they the debt Of nature and of justice too must pay . Yet I must weep for you , ye rival fair , Arno and Andalusia ; but for thee More largely and ...
... golden Sun. Nor shall the verdant vallies then remain Safe in their meek submission ; they the debt Of nature and of justice too must pay . Yet I must weep for you , ye rival fair , Arno and Andalusia ; but for thee More largely and ...
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... golden scales : Who shone supreme , who was himself the light , Ere yet Refraction learn'd her skill to paint , And bend athwart the clouds her beauteous bow . When Knowledge at her father's dread com- mand Resign'd to Israel's king her ...
... golden scales : Who shone supreme , who was himself the light , Ere yet Refraction learn'd her skill to paint , And bend athwart the clouds her beauteous bow . When Knowledge at her father's dread com- mand Resign'd to Israel's king her ...
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... golden globe Lost were the garnet's lustre , lost the lily , The tulip and auricula's spotted pride ; Lost were the peacock's plumage , to the sight So pleasing in its pomp and glossy glow . O thrice - illustrious ! were it not for thee ...
... golden globe Lost were the garnet's lustre , lost the lily , The tulip and auricula's spotted pride ; Lost were the peacock's plumage , to the sight So pleasing in its pomp and glossy glow . O thrice - illustrious ! were it not for thee ...
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... golden vesture . Here the meads Enrich'd by Flora's dædal hand , with pride Expose their spotted verdure . Nor are you , Pomona , absent ; you ' midst hoary leaves Swell the vermiliou cherry ; and on yon trees Suspend the pippin's ...
... golden vesture . Here the meads Enrich'd by Flora's dædal hand , with pride Expose their spotted verdure . Nor are you , Pomona , absent ; you ' midst hoary leaves Swell the vermiliou cherry ; and on yon trees Suspend the pippin's ...
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