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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... sigh'd , and I wish'd I could speak ... To Mr. Dryden , on his Translation of Persius . ib . The eleventh Satire of Juvenal 283 ......... ......... 272 Prologue to Queen Mary , upon her Majesty's coming to see the Old Batchelor , after ...
... sigh'd , and I wish'd I could speak ... To Mr. Dryden , on his Translation of Persius . ib . The eleventh Satire of Juvenal 283 ......... ......... 272 Prologue to Queen Mary , upon her Majesty's coming to see the Old Batchelor , after ...
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... sighs and tears the rage of tempests bind , With tears I'd bribe the seas , with sighs the wind : Soft - sighing gales thy canvas should inspire ; But hence , ye boisterous storms ! far hence retire To inland woods ; there your mad ...
... sighs and tears the rage of tempests bind , With tears I'd bribe the seas , with sighs the wind : Soft - sighing gales thy canvas should inspire ; But hence , ye boisterous storms ! far hence retire To inland woods ; there your mad ...
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... sighs again disclose Their grici , and last this bold design propose ; That , in the dead of night , both would deceive Their keepers , and the house and city leave ; And lest , escap'd , without the walls they stray In pathless fields ...
... sighs again disclose Their grici , and last this bold design propose ; That , in the dead of night , both would deceive Their keepers , and the house and city leave ; And lest , escap'd , without the walls they stray In pathless fields ...
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... sighs ; My darts are gone , but oh ! beware , Fond mortals , of Dorinda's eyes . AROUND TO OCTAVIA INDISPOSED . your I couch whilst sighing lovers view Wit , beauty , goodness , suffering all in you ; So mournful is the scene , ' tis ...
... sighs ; My darts are gone , but oh ! beware , Fond mortals , of Dorinda's eyes . AROUND TO OCTAVIA INDISPOSED . your I couch whilst sighing lovers view Wit , beauty , goodness , suffering all in you ; So mournful is the scene , ' tis ...
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... sighs arose , and smoke from hearts con- sum'd : Till , thence remov'd , the queen of beauty flies To Britain , fam'd for bright victorious eyes . Here fix'd , she chose a sweeter seat for Love , And Greenwich - park is now her Cyprian ...
... sighs arose , and smoke from hearts con- sum'd : Till , thence remov'd , the queen of beauty flies To Britain , fam'd for bright victorious eyes . Here fix'd , she chose a sweeter seat for Love , And Greenwich - park is now her Cyprian ...
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