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... Poet's New - Year's Gift Ode to Apollo Pairing Time anticipated . A Fable The Dog and the Water - Lily Page • 181 185 184 185 • 186 187 189 The Poet , the Oyster , and the Sensitive Plant 191 The Shrubbery 193 The Winter Nosegay 194 ...
... Poet's New - Year's Gift Ode to Apollo Pairing Time anticipated . A Fable The Dog and the Water - Lily Page • 181 185 184 185 • 186 187 189 The Poet , the Oyster , and the Sensitive Plant 191 The Shrubbery 193 The Winter Nosegay 194 ...
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... poet's boast ) , The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign ; But he that loves him has no need to feign . A. Your smooth eulogium to one crown address'd , Seems to imply a censure on the ...
... poet's boast ) , The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign ; But he that loves him has no need to feign . A. Your smooth eulogium to one crown address'd , Seems to imply a censure on the ...
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... poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a siren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . [ elude B ...
... poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a siren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . [ elude B ...
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... poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me ...
... poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me ...
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... poet's heart ; he looks to distant storms ; He hears the thunder ere the tempest lowers ; And , arm'd with strength ... poet was the same ; Hence British poets too the priesthood shared , And every hallow'd druid was a bard . But no ...
... poet's heart ; he looks to distant storms ; He hears the thunder ere the tempest lowers ; And , arm'd with strength ... poet was the same ; Hence British poets too the priesthood shared , And every hallow'd druid was a bard . But no ...
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