A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes: With Notes, Volume 5J. Dodsley, 1782 - English poetry |
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... fmiles - must ever cure . But ah ! how false these maxims prove , How frail fecurity from love , Experience hourly shows ! Love can imagin'd fmiles fupply , On every charming lip and eye Eternal fweets bestows . In vain we trust the ...
... fmiles - must ever cure . But ah ! how false these maxims prove , How frail fecurity from love , Experience hourly shows ! Love can imagin'd fmiles fupply , On every charming lip and eye Eternal fweets bestows . In vain we trust the ...
Page 45
... fmiles diftinguifh'd Beauty's queen . Her train was form'd of fmiles and loves , Her chariot drawn by gentleft doves ; And from her zone , the nymph may find , ' Tis Beauty's province to be kind . Then fmile , my fair ; and all whose ...
... fmiles diftinguifh'd Beauty's queen . Her train was form'd of fmiles and loves , Her chariot drawn by gentleft doves ; And from her zone , the nymph may find , ' Tis Beauty's province to be kind . Then fmile , my fair ; and all whose ...
Page 82
... fmiles the lovely fpring returns : Health to the breeze unbars the screaming door And every breast with heat celestial burns . 1 Again the daifies peep , the violets blow ; Again the tenants of the leafy grove , Forgot the patt❜ring ...
... fmiles the lovely fpring returns : Health to the breeze unbars the screaming door And every breast with heat celestial burns . 1 Again the daifies peep , the violets blow ; Again the tenants of the leafy grove , Forgot the patt❜ring ...
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... fmiles did Fortune crown , The more feverely on my age to frown ? Of Pleasure's endless ftores I drank my fill , Officious Nature waited on my will ; The Auftrian refcu'd , and the Turk o'erthrown % , Europe and Afia fill'd with my ...
... fmiles did Fortune crown , The more feverely on my age to frown ? Of Pleasure's endless ftores I drank my fill , Officious Nature waited on my will ; The Auftrian refcu'd , and the Turk o'erthrown % , Europe and Afia fill'd with my ...
Page 142
... fmiles . " While from the godlike race of CHURCHILL born , Four beauteous Rofamonds this bow'r adorn ' , Who with the ancient fyren of the place In charms might vie , and every blooming grace ; But blefs'd with equal virtues had she ...
... fmiles . " While from the godlike race of CHURCHILL born , Four beauteous Rofamonds this bow'r adorn ' , Who with the ancient fyren of the place In charms might vie , and every blooming grace ; But blefs'd with equal virtues had she ...
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