The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... eyes , Blesses his prosperous heir , and calmly dies . May all your fortune , like your numbers , shine , And smoothly flow , without one rugged line ! Till we confess the genius is the same , That guides your fortune , and poetic flame ...
... eyes , Blesses his prosperous heir , and calmly dies . May all your fortune , like your numbers , shine , And smoothly flow , without one rugged line ! Till we confess the genius is the same , That guides your fortune , and poetic flame ...
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... eyes beheld A dying person spurn the sanguine field . Aghast she started back , and shook with pain , As rising breezes curl the trembling main . She gaz'd awhile entranc'd ; but when she found It was her lover weitering on the ground ...
... eyes beheld A dying person spurn the sanguine field . Aghast she started back , and shook with pain , As rising breezes curl the trembling main . She gaz'd awhile entranc'd ; but when she found It was her lover weitering on the ground ...
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... eyes the new - made wound will show . Next , all that dare Love's sovereign power defy , In fetters bound , inglorious shall pass by : All shall submit to thee - Th ' applauding crowd Shall lift their hands , and sing thy praise aloud ...
... eyes the new - made wound will show . Next , all that dare Love's sovereign power defy , In fetters bound , inglorious shall pass by : All shall submit to thee - Th ' applauding crowd Shall lift their hands , and sing thy praise aloud ...
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... eyes . [ prize Behold the maid , who then secure repell'd The shafts of Love , by fainting sickness quell'd ! ( As Beauty's goddess once a wound sustain'd , Not from her son , but from a mortal's1 hand ) Asteria too forgets her ...
... eyes . [ prize Behold the maid , who then secure repell'd The shafts of Love , by fainting sickness quell'd ! ( As Beauty's goddess once a wound sustain'd , Not from her son , but from a mortal's1 hand ) Asteria too forgets her ...
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... eyes on this important day , [ away . And Venus from his forehead took the blinding cloth Here Mira pass'd , and fix'd his wondering view , Her perfect shape distinguished praises drew ; Tall , beauteous , and majestic to the sight ...
... eyes on this important day , [ away . And Venus from his forehead took the blinding cloth Here Mira pass'd , and fix'd his wondering view , Her perfect shape distinguished praises drew ; Tall , beauteous , and majestic to the sight ...
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