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... happy shore The winds upon their balmy wings convey'd , Whose guilty sweetness first their world betray'd ; So by your counsels we are brought to view A rich and undiscover'd world in you . There is another comparison , for there is ...
... happy shore The winds upon their balmy wings convey'd , Whose guilty sweetness first their world betray'd ; So by your counsels we are brought to view A rich and undiscover'd world in you . There is another comparison , for there is ...
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... happy reign ; So slowly by degrees unwilling fame Did matchless Eleonora's fate proclaim , Till public as the loss the news became . } This is little better than to say in praise of a shrub that it is as green as a tree ; or of a brook ...
... happy reign ; So slowly by degrees unwilling fame Did matchless Eleonora's fate proclaim , Till public as the loss the news became . } This is little better than to say in praise of a shrub that it is as green as a tree ; or of a brook ...
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... happy moments ; a fantastic foppery , to which my kind- ness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior . Gray's poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name , if I ...
... happy moments ; a fantastic foppery , to which my kind- ness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior . Gray's poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name , if I ...
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