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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... playing at Ombre with two Ladies ...... ib . Cupid's Promise , a French Song paraphrased . ib . To the Earl of Oxford ... play . SONGS , SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS . I. Set by Mr. Abel . - Reading ends in in Lady Oxford's ...
... playing at Ombre with two Ladies ...... ib . Cupid's Promise , a French Song paraphrased . ib . To the Earl of Oxford ... play . SONGS , SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS . I. Set by Mr. Abel . - Reading ends in in Lady Oxford's ...
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... play , which still continues on the stage , and of which it is unnecessary to add a private voice to such continuance of approbation , is not acted or printed according to the author's original draught , or his settled intention . He ...
... play , which still continues on the stage , and of which it is unnecessary to add a private voice to such continuance of approbation , is not acted or printed according to the author's original draught , or his settled intention . He ...
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... Play view themselves in fadeless colours there , Through every polish'd piece correctness flows , Yet each bright page with sprightly fancy glows ; Oh ! happy elegance , where thus are join'd A solid judgment , and a wit refin'd ! Here ...
... Play view themselves in fadeless colours there , Through every polish'd piece correctness flows , Yet each bright page with sprightly fancy glows ; Oh ! happy elegance , where thus are join'd A solid judgment , and a wit refin'd ! Here ...
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... play , Whose spreading fame has reach'd to foreign lands , And kind applauses mark'd its happy way , Receive some tribute too from British hands . · POEMS OF JOHN HUGHES . THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE 10 RECOMMENDATORY POEMS .
... play , Whose spreading fame has reach'd to foreign lands , And kind applauses mark'd its happy way , Receive some tribute too from British hands . · POEMS OF JOHN HUGHES . THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE 10 RECOMMENDATORY POEMS .
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... play ; And sportful dolphins , with a nimble glance , To the bright Sun their glittering scales advance . In oozy beds profound the billows sleep , No clamorous winds awake the silent deep ; Rebuk'd , they whisper in a gentle breeze ...
... play ; And sportful dolphins , with a nimble glance , To the bright Sun their glittering scales advance . In oozy beds profound the billows sleep , No clamorous winds awake the silent deep ; Rebuk'd , they whisper in a gentle breeze ...
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