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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... themselves to be true to love . Sooner or later they muft all pafs through that trial , like fome Mahometan monks , that are bound by their order , once at least in their life , to make a pilgrimage to Mecca : " In furias ignemque ruunt ...
... themselves to be true to love . Sooner or later they muft all pafs through that trial , like fome Mahometan monks , that are bound by their order , once at least in their life , to make a pilgrimage to Mecca : " In furias ignemque ruunt ...
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... themselves with the celestial air Of odoriferous breath ; no other sport They could enjoy ; yet think the time but fhort , And wish that it again renewed were , To fuck each other's breath for ever there . Sometimes they did exclaim ...
... themselves with the celestial air Of odoriferous breath ; no other sport They could enjoy ; yet think the time but fhort , And wish that it again renewed were , To fuck each other's breath for ever there . Sometimes they did exclaim ...
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... 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 , yet doth but tantalize . From your Court ...
... 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 , yet doth but tantalize . From your Court ...
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... themselves their own conjunctions know . " Twere an ill world , I'll fwear , for every friend , If distance could their union end ; But Love itself does far advance Above the power of time and space ; It fcorns fuch outward circumstance ...
... themselves their own conjunctions know . " Twere an ill world , I'll fwear , for every friend , If distance could their union end ; But Love itself does far advance Above the power of time and space ; It fcorns fuch outward circumstance ...
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... themselves in thee : In vain , for rebels ' lives thou would'n not fave , And down they funk beneath thy conquering wave . Good , reverend Thames ! the belt - belov'd of all Thofe noble floods that meet at Neptune's hall ; London's ...
... themselves in thee : In vain , for rebels ' lives thou would'n not fave , And down they funk beneath thy conquering wave . Good , reverend Thames ! the belt - belov'd of all Thofe noble floods that meet at Neptune's hall ; London's ...
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