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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... charms are nonsense , nonsense seems a charm ib . 244 245 Prologue spoken at the Court at Whitehall , before King Charles II . By the Lady Eli- zabeth Howard 251 246 Postscript ...... 247 Elegy on the Earl of Rochester . By Mrs. Wharton ...
... charms are nonsense , nonsense seems a charm ib . 244 245 Prologue spoken at the Court at Whitehall , before King Charles II . By the Lady Eli- zabeth Howard 251 246 Postscript ...... 247 Elegy on the Earl of Rochester . By Mrs. Wharton ...
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... charms , and imperious influence , on whom he looks with amazement rather than fondness , whose chains he wishes , though in vain , to break , and whose presence is wine that inflames to madness . His acquaintance with this high - born ...
... charms , and imperious influence , on whom he looks with amazement rather than fondness , whose chains he wishes , though in vain , to break , and whose presence is wine that inflames to madness . His acquaintance with this high - born ...
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... charms made only for distant admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife his biographers have recorded , that she gave him five sons and eight daughters . During the long interval of parliament , he is represented as ...
... charms made only for distant admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife his biographers have recorded , that she gave him five sons and eight daughters . During the long interval of parliament , he is represented as ...
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... charms , Which only can divert his fierce design . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ; Thou the flame , Kindled in his breast , canst tame , With that snow , which , unmelted , lies on thine . He seldom indeed fetches an ...
... charms , Which only can divert his fierce design . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ; Thou the flame , Kindled in his breast , canst tame , With that snow , which , unmelted , lies on thine . He seldom indeed fetches an ...
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... Charm all her senses ; till the joyful Sun Without a rival half his course has run : Who , while my hand that fairer ... charms Which only can divert his fierce design . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ? Thou the flame ...
... Charm all her senses ; till the joyful Sun Without a rival half his course has run : Who , while my hand that fairer ... charms Which only can divert his fierce design . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ? Thou the flame ...
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