The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5J. Moore, 1800 - English poetry |
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... plain where he has expofed him- felf to the critics ; he was forced to follow the fashion to humour an audience , and not to please himself . A hard facrifice to make for prefent fubfiftence , especially for fuch as would have their ...
... plain where he has expofed him- felf to the critics ; he was forced to follow the fashion to humour an audience , and not to please himself . A hard facrifice to make for prefent fubfiftence , especially for fuch as would have their ...
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... plain , The guilt's your own of every odious scene : The prefent time ftill gives the ftage its mode , The vices that you practice , we explode ; We hold the glafs , and but reflect your shame , Like Spartans , by expofing , to reclaim ...
... plain , The guilt's your own of every odious scene : The prefent time ftill gives the ftage its mode , The vices that you practice , we explode ; We hold the glafs , and but reflect your shame , Like Spartans , by expofing , to reclaim ...
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... plain . IX . Haughty Britannia then , inur'd to toil , Spread far and near the terrors of her ifle ; True to herself , and to the public weal , No Gallic gold could blunt the British steel . X. Not much unlike , when thou in arms wert ...
... plain . IX . Haughty Britannia then , inur'd to toil , Spread far and near the terrors of her ifle ; True to herself , and to the public weal , No Gallic gold could blunt the British steel . X. Not much unlike , when thou in arms wert ...
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Samuel Johnson. ARCALA US . Mourn all ye heavens , above yon azure plain Let grief abound , and lamentation reign , The Thunderer with tears bedew his Sky , For Amadis , his champion ' s doom'd to die . ARCABON . Death be my care ; for ...
Samuel Johnson. ARCALA US . Mourn all ye heavens , above yon azure plain Let grief abound , and lamentation reign , The Thunderer with tears bedew his Sky , For Amadis , his champion ' s doom'd to die . ARCABON . Death be my care ; for ...
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... plain , Nor where Pactolus ' fands inrich the main , Can yield a profpect fairer to the fight , 822 Nor charm with fcenes of more auguft delight . 815 SIR WILLOUGHBY ASTON , LATE OF ASTON IN CHESHIRE , 1704 . To the Lady Crewe of ...
... plain , Nor where Pactolus ' fands inrich the main , Can yield a profpect fairer to the fight , 822 Nor charm with fcenes of more auguft delight . 815 SIR WILLOUGHBY ASTON , LATE OF ASTON IN CHESHIRE , 1704 . To the Lady Crewe of ...
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