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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... side . The princesse dond a poore pastoraes geare , A kerchiefe course vpon her head she tide ; But yet her gestures and her lookes ( I gesse ) Were such , as ill beseem'd a shepherdesse . Not those rude garments could obscure and hide ...
... side . The princesse dond a poore pastoraes geare , A kerchiefe course vpon her head she tide ; But yet her gestures and her lookes ( I gesse ) Were such , as ill beseem'd a shepherdesse . Not those rude garments could obscure and hide ...
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... side : Neglected Warwick , ( whose bold hand , like Fate , Gives and resumes the sceptre of our state ) Wooes for his master ; and , with double shame , Himself deluded , mocks the princely dame , The lady Bona : whom just anger burns ...
... side : Neglected Warwick , ( whose bold hand , like Fate , Gives and resumes the sceptre of our state ) Wooes for his master ; and , with double shame , Himself deluded , mocks the princely dame , The lady Bona : whom just anger burns ...
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... side . Ambition rather would affect the fame Of some new structure to have borne her name : Two distant virtues in one act we find , The modesty , and greatness , of his mind : Which , not content to be above the rage And injury of all ...
... side . Ambition rather would affect the fame Of some new structure to have borne her name : Two distant virtues in one act we find , The modesty , and greatness , of his mind : Which , not content to be above the rage And injury of all ...
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... side Nature , to recompense the fatal pride Of such stern beauty , plac'd those healing springs 8 ; Which not more help , than that destruction brings . Thy heart , no ruder than the rugged stone , I might , like Orpheus , with my ...
... side Nature , to recompense the fatal pride Of such stern beauty , plac'd those healing springs 8 ; Which not more help , than that destruction brings . Thy heart , no ruder than the rugged stone , I might , like Orpheus , with my ...
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... side devours both blade and heft : And there his steel the bold Bermudan left . Courage the rest from his example take , And now they change the colour of the lake : Blood flows in rivers from her wounded side , As if they would prevent ...
... side devours both blade and heft : And there his steel the bold Bermudan left . Courage the rest from his example take , And now they change the colour of the lake : Blood flows in rivers from her wounded side , As if they would prevent ...
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