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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... Head of a Stag Of the Misreport of her being painted Of her passing through a Crowd of People The Story of Phoebus and Daphne applied Fabula Phabe et Daphnis ... ib . Upon Ben Jonson ...... 44 On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays ib . To a Lady ...
... Head of a Stag Of the Misreport of her being painted Of her passing through a Crowd of People The Story of Phoebus and Daphne applied Fabula Phabe et Daphnis ... ib . Upon Ben Jonson ...... 44 On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays ib . To a Lady ...
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... head of a stag : O fertile head ! which every year Could such a crop of wonder bear ! The teeming Earth did never bring So soon so hard , so huge a thing : Which , might it never have been cast , Each year's growth added to the last ...
... head of a stag : O fertile head ! which every year Could such a crop of wonder bear ! The teeming Earth did never bring So soon so hard , so huge a thing : Which , might it never have been cast , Each year's growth added to the last ...
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... head ; Rais'd the White Rose , and trampled on the Red : Till Love , triumphing o'er the victor's pride , Brought Mars and Warwick to the conquer'd side : Neglected Warwick , ( whose bold hand , like Fate , Gives and resumes the sceptre ...
... head ; Rais'd the White Rose , and trampled on the Red : Till Love , triumphing o'er the victor's pride , Brought Mars and Warwick to the conquer'd side : Neglected Warwick , ( whose bold hand , like Fate , Gives and resumes the sceptre ...
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... head , Mother of all that on ambrosia fed . Thy godlike race must sway the age to come ; As she Olympus peopled with her womb . Would those commanders of mankind obey Their honour'd parent ; all pretences lay Down at her royal feet ...
... head , Mother of all that on ambrosia fed . Thy godlike race must sway the age to come ; As she Olympus peopled with her womb . Would those commanders of mankind obey Their honour'd parent ; all pretences lay Down at her royal feet ...
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... head , With shame remembers that he fled The scorned dogs , resolves to try The combat next : but , if their cry ... heads is thrown . In a late dream , the Genius of this land , Amaz'd , I saw , like the fair Hebrew 2 stand ; When first ...
... head , With shame remembers that he fled The scorned dogs , resolves to try The combat next : but , if their cry ... heads is thrown . In a late dream , the Genius of this land , Amaz'd , I saw , like the fair Hebrew 2 stand ; When first ...
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