The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 2J. Moore, 1793 - English poetry |
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Page vii
... feek for gold , or enrich myself with the traffic of those parts ( which is the end of moft men that travel thither ; fo that of these Indies it is truer than it was of the former , 66 Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos , " Per ...
... feek for gold , or enrich myself with the traffic of those parts ( which is the end of moft men that travel thither ; fo that of these Indies it is truer than it was of the former , 66 Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos , " Per ...
Page ix
... feek to honour , than the highest person who ever honoured his profeffion ? whom a Chriftian poet , rather than the man after God's own heart , and the man who had that facred pre eminence above all other princes , to be the beft and ...
... feek to honour , than the highest person who ever honoured his profeffion ? whom a Chriftian poet , rather than the man after God's own heart , and the man who had that facred pre eminence above all other princes , to be the beft and ...
Page 6
... feek for fport , and hunt the ftarted game ; Guifardo and Philocrates were there , With many friends too tedious here to name : With them Conftantia went , but not to find The bear or wolf , but Love all mild and kind . Being enter'd in ...
... feek for fport , and hunt the ftarted game ; Guifardo and Philocrates were there , With many friends too tedious here to name : With them Conftantia went , but not to find The bear or wolf , but Love all mild and kind . Being enter'd in ...
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... feek his Fair : And as upon the colour'd ground he lies , His blood had dropt upon the mulberries ; With which th ' unfpotted berries flained were , And ever fince with red they colour'd are . At last fair Thibe left the den , for fear ...
... feek his Fair : And as upon the colour'd ground he lies , His blood had dropt upon the mulberries ; With which th ' unfpotted berries flained were , And ever fince with red they colour'd are . At last fair Thibe left the den , for fear ...
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... feek for day , we darkness , whilft our fight In light finds darkness , and in darkness light . O DE I. & ON THE PRAISE OF POETRY . IS not a pyramid of marble ftone , " Though high as our ambition : ' Tis not a torab cut out in brafs ...
... feek for day , we darkness , whilft our fight In light finds darkness , and in darkness light . O DE I. & ON THE PRAISE OF POETRY . IS not a pyramid of marble ftone , " Though high as our ambition : ' Tis not a torab cut out in brafs ...
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