The English Poets: Addison to BlakeMacmillan, 1898 - English poetry |
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... numbers , and contract his host : Though fens and floods possess'd the middle space , That unprovok'd they would have fear'd to pass , Nor fens nor floods can stop Britannia's bands , When her proud foe rang'd on their borders stands ...
... numbers , and contract his host : Though fens and floods possess'd the middle space , That unprovok'd they would have fear'd to pass , Nor fens nor floods can stop Britannia's bands , When her proud foe rang'd on their borders stands ...
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... number of hands , he himself contributing the fourteenth book and parts of others . ] Garth is mainly interesting at the present day because he was the first writer who took the couplet , as Dryden had fashioned it , from Dryden's hands ...
... number of hands , he himself contributing the fourteenth book and parts of others . ] Garth is mainly interesting at the present day because he was the first writer who took the couplet , as Dryden had fashioned it , from Dryden's hands ...
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... sing , that I should play . My lyre I tune , my voice I raise ; But with my numbers mix my sighs : And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise , I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes . Fair Chloe blushed : Euphelia frowned : I sung and MATTHEW PRIOR . 23.
... sing , that I should play . My lyre I tune , my voice I raise ; But with my numbers mix my sighs : And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise , I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes . Fair Chloe blushed : Euphelia frowned : I sung and MATTHEW PRIOR . 23.
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... numbers to thy lays ; Free as thine shall be my song , As thy music , short or long ; Poets , wild as thou , were born , Pleasing best when unconfined , When to please is least designed , Soothing but their cares to rest ; Cares do ...
... numbers to thy lays ; Free as thine shall be my song , As thy music , short or long ; Poets , wild as thou , were born , Pleasing best when unconfined , When to please is least designed , Soothing but their cares to rest ; Cares do ...
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... numbers in their hearts must own , Who , but for him , had been unknown . * * * * ' Perhaps I may allow the Dean Had too much satire in his vein ; And seem'd determined not to starve it , Because no age could more deserve it . Yet ...
... numbers in their hearts must own , Who , but for him , had been unknown . * * * * ' Perhaps I may allow the Dean Had too much satire in his vein ; And seem'd determined not to starve it , Because no age could more deserve it . Yet ...
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