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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... kind planets born , Whom every Grace and every Muse adorn , At first a numerous audience crown'd this play , Whose spreading fame has reach'd to foreign lands , And kind applauses mark'd its happy way , Receive some tribute too from ...
... kind planets born , Whom every Grace and every Muse adorn , At first a numerous audience crown'd this play , Whose spreading fame has reach'd to foreign lands , And kind applauses mark'd its happy way , Receive some tribute too from ...
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... kind . But you , your sex's champion , are come forth To fight their quarrel , and assert their worth ; Our Salic law of wit you have destroy'd , Establish'd female claim , and triumph'd o'er our While we look on , and with repining ...
... kind . But you , your sex's champion , are come forth To fight their quarrel , and assert their worth ; Our Salic law of wit you have destroy'd , Establish'd female claim , and triumph'd o'er our While we look on , and with repining ...
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... kind , and were written as an experiment of introducing a sort of composition , which had never been na- turalized in our language . Those who are affect- edly partial to the Italian tongue will scarce al- low music to speak any other ...
... kind , and were written as an experiment of introducing a sort of composition , which had never been na- turalized in our language . Those who are affect- edly partial to the Italian tongue will scarce al- low music to speak any other ...
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... kind . It may be proper to observe , therefore , that the re- citative style in composition is founded on that variety of accent which pleases in the pronunci- ation of a good orator , with as little deviation from it as possible . The ...
... kind . It may be proper to observe , therefore , that the re- citative style in composition is founded on that variety of accent which pleases in the pronunci- ation of a good orator , with as little deviation from it as possible . The ...
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... kind ; And when , by Death , the fair are snatch'd away , Lest we our solemn vows should break , In the same grave our living corpse we lay , And willing the same fate partake . ANOTHER . My dearest spouse , that thou and I May shun the ...
... kind ; And when , by Death , the fair are snatch'd away , Lest we our solemn vows should break , In the same grave our living corpse we lay , And willing the same fate partake . ANOTHER . My dearest spouse , that thou and I May shun the ...
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Apollo arms beauteous beauty Behold Belgia bless blest breast bright Cæsar charms Columbo confest crown'd Cupid darts dear death delight Derry divine e'er Earth Epicurus ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flow goddess gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hear heart Heaven hero honour Jove kind king labour light live lord Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Ovid pain passion peace Peneus Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet Pothinus praise pride queen rage rais'd reign rise sacred shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul swain sweet tears tell thee things thou thought toil twas Venus verse vex'd Virg virtue weep Whilst winds wise wound wretched wyll youth