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" charmer to vie j How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural ftrain of Hope: Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, When I "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 274
by Samuel Johnson - 1806
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Temple Bar, Volume 10

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1864 - 608 pages
...vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree ; It is not for me to explain How fair and how fickle they be. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower...
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A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...bofom, be fure, is as cold ? "• How the nightingales labour the ftrain, "• With the notes of his charmer to vie j " How they vary their accents in vain, "• Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his...
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A Collection of Poems ...

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...fure, is as cold ? " How the nightingales labour the ftrain, " With the notes of his charmer to vie ; " How they vary their accents in vain, " Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his...
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Elegies on several occasions. Odes, songs, ballads, &c. Levities; or, Pieces ...

William Shenstone - 1765 - 510 pages
...be fure, is as cold ? How the nightingales labour the drain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." To And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his lays He throws it at PHYLLIS'S feet. "...
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A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Volume 4

English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...fure, is as cold ; *' How the nightingales labour the ftrain, " With the notes of his charmer to vie: " How they vary their accents in vain, " Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he Arrays, And pillages every fWeet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1767 - 286 pages
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair and how fickle they be. IV. Alas! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r,...
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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 4

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...is as cold ; " How the nightingales labour the ftrain, " With the notes of his charmer to vie: лл How they vary their accents in vain, " Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his...
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The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse ...

English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...fure, is as cold, R How the nightingales labour the /train, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, failing ihe wrea'.h to his lays,...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1774 - 316 pages
...be fure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the ftrain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his lays,...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1774 - 328 pages
...be fure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the ftrain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, failing the wreath to his lays,...
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