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... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . of Such are the accidents which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular designation ...
... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . of Such are the accidents which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular designation ...
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... delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " " He So differently are things seen ! and so differ- ently are they shown ! but actions are visible , though ...
... delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " " He So differently are things seen ! and so differ- ently are they shown ! but actions are visible , though ...
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... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed : Good ...
... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed : Good ...
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... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to men- tion the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ...
... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to men- tion the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ...
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... delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is , Lofty as that and smooth as this . In the Nemean Ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe , that whatever is said of " the original new moon , her tender forehead and ...
... delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is , Lofty as that and smooth as this . In the Nemean Ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe , that whatever is said of " the original new moon , her tender forehead and ...
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