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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... just measures and cadences be not obferved in the pro- nunciation . So that almost all their fweetnefs and numerofity ( which is to be found , if I mistake not , in the rougheft , if rightly repeated ) lies in a manner wholly at the ...
... just measures and cadences be not obferved in the pro- nunciation . So that almost all their fweetnefs and numerofity ( which is to be found , if I mistake not , in the rougheft , if rightly repeated ) lies in a manner wholly at the ...
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... Just like a fhip , while every mounting wave Tofs'd by enraged Boreas up and down , Threatens the mariner with a gaping grave ; Such did his cafe , fuch did his state appear , Alike diftracted between hope and fear . Thinking her love ...
... Just like a fhip , while every mounting wave Tofs'd by enraged Boreas up and down , Threatens the mariner with a gaping grave ; Such did his cafe , fuch did his state appear , Alike diftracted between hope and fear . Thinking her love ...
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... Just as the guilty prifoner fearful stands , Reading his fatal Theta in the brows Of him who both his life and death commands , Ere from his mouth he the fad fentence knows : Such was his ftatc to fee her father come , Nor wifh'd - for ...
... Just as the guilty prifoner fearful stands , Reading his fatal Theta in the brows Of him who both his life and death commands , Ere from his mouth he the fad fentence knows : Such was his ftatc to fee her father come , Nor wifh'd - for ...
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... Just like a marble ftatue did he stand , Cut by fome fkilful graver's artful hand . Recovering breath , at Fate he did exclaim , Washing with tears the torn and bloody weed : " I may , " faid he , myfelf for her death blame ...
... Just like a marble ftatue did he stand , Cut by fome fkilful graver's artful hand . Recovering breath , at Fate he did exclaim , Washing with tears the torn and bloody weed : " I may , " faid he , myfelf for her death blame ...
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... just like the crows , ' cause there They build themselves a neft : From too much Poetry which fhines With gold in nothing but its lines , Free , O you Powers ! my breaft . And from Aftronomy , which in the skies Finds fish and bulls ...
... just like the crows , ' cause there They build themselves a neft : From too much Poetry which fhines With gold in nothing but its lines , Free , O you Powers ! my breaft . And from Aftronomy , which in the skies Finds fish and bulls ...
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