Minor English Poets, 1660-1780: A Selection from Alexander Chalmers' The English Poets, Volume 1David P. French B. Blom, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 75
... bring your tropes and figures here , Strange as to bring camels and elephants were ; And metaphor is so unknown a thing , ' Twould need the preface of God save the king . Yet this I'll say , for th ' honour of the place , That , by ...
... bring your tropes and figures here , Strange as to bring camels and elephants were ; And metaphor is so unknown a thing , ' Twould need the preface of God save the king . Yet this I'll say , for th ' honour of the place , That , by ...
Page 144
... bring him back . " He spoke ; the Heavens seem'd decently to bow , With all their bright inhabitants ; and now The jocund spheres began again to play , Again each spirit sung Halleluia ; Only that angel was straight gone : even so ( But ...
... bring him back . " He spoke ; the Heavens seem'd decently to bow , With all their bright inhabitants ; and now The jocund spheres began again to play , Again each spirit sung Halleluia ; Only that angel was straight gone : even so ( But ...
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... bring Damage to one , whom he had taught to sing ; Thus he advis'd me : " On yon aged tree Hang up thy lute , and hie thee to the sea ; That there with wonders thy diverted mind Some truce at least may with this passion find . " Ah ...
... bring Damage to one , whom he had taught to sing ; Thus he advis'd me : " On yon aged tree Hang up thy lute , and hie thee to the sea ; That there with wonders thy diverted mind Some truce at least may with this passion find . " Ah ...
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