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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... 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 cowslip - painted mead , There let me doze out the dull ...
... 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 cowslip - painted mead , There let me doze out the dull ...
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... sweet Aonian maids , Leave the Parnassian shades , The joyful Hymeneal sing , And to a lovelier fair Than fiction can devise , or eloquence declare , Your vocal tributes bring . And you , ye winged choristers , that fly In all the ...
... sweet Aonian maids , Leave the Parnassian shades , The joyful Hymeneal sing , And to a lovelier fair Than fiction can devise , or eloquence declare , Your vocal tributes bring . And you , ye winged choristers , that fly In all the ...
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... Sweet Nancy's voice shall soothe the sound ; Tho ' darkness shou'd invest the skies , New day shall beam from Nancy's eyes , And bless all nature round . Let but those lips their sweets disclose , And rich perfumes exhale , We shall not ...
... Sweet Nancy's voice shall soothe the sound ; Tho ' darkness shou'd invest the skies , New day shall beam from Nancy's eyes , And bless all nature round . Let but those lips their sweets disclose , And rich perfumes exhale , We shall not ...
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... Sweet Society the bride ; Last Honesty , full seemly drest In her cleanly home - spun vest . The abbey bells in wak'ning rounds The warning peal have giv'n ; And pious Gratitude resounds Her morning hymn to Heav'n . All nature wakes ...
... Sweet Society the bride ; Last Honesty , full seemly drest In her cleanly home - spun vest . The abbey bells in wak'ning rounds The warning peal have giv'n ; And pious Gratitude resounds Her morning hymn to Heav'n . All nature wakes ...
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... sweet , Come with thy precious incense , bring thy gifts , And with thy choicest stores the altar crown . Thou too ... sweets the amorous eye , Yet will not the sagacious birds , decoy'd By fair appearance , touch the noxious fruit ...
... sweet , Come with thy precious incense , bring thy gifts , And with thy choicest stores the altar crown . Thou too ... sweets the amorous eye , Yet will not the sagacious birds , decoy'd By fair appearance , touch the noxious fruit ...
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