The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... beauty tost ! ..... On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ......... To a Lady , from whom he received a Silver Pen To Chloris On my Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ......... ib . Song . While I listen to thy voice To Van Dyck ...
... beauty tost ! ..... On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ......... To a Lady , from whom he received a Silver Pen To Chloris On my Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ......... ib . Song . While I listen to thy voice To Van Dyck ...
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... Beauty in Distress 594 XIII . To my honoured Kinsman , John Dry- den , of Chesterton , in the County of Huntingdon , Esq . XIV . To Sir Godfrey Kneller , principal Painter to his Majesty ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS . ib . 596 508 An Essay upon ...
... Beauty in Distress 594 XIII . To my honoured Kinsman , John Dry- den , of Chesterton , in the County of Huntingdon , Esq . XIV . To Sir Godfrey Kneller , principal Painter to his Majesty ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS . ib . 596 508 An Essay upon ...
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... beauty , and probably too vain to think himself resistible , he fixed his heart , perhaps half fondly and half ambitiously , upon the lady Dorothea Sidney , eldest daughter of the earl of Leicester , whom he courted by all the poetry in ...
... beauty , and probably too vain to think himself resistible , he fixed his heart , perhaps half fondly and half ambitiously , upon the lady Dorothea Sidney , eldest daughter of the earl of Leicester , whom he courted by all the poetry in ...
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... beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has , therefore , in his whole volume , nothing ...
... beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has , therefore , in his whole volume , nothing ...
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... beauty and the grandeur of nature , the flowers of the spring , and the harvests of autumn , the vicissitudes of the tide , and the revolutions of the sky , and praise the Maker for his works , in lines which no reader shall lay aside ...
... beauty and the grandeur of nature , the flowers of the spring , and the harvests of autumn , the vicissitudes of the tide , and the revolutions of the sky , and praise the Maker for his works , in lines which no reader shall lay aside ...
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