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... wilt Antiope the fair , Or young Hermione beyond compare ; Praise all the charms that age of beauty bore , But with my Cynthia let them vie no more ; Still less compared with forms of lesser grace , Would a stern judge award her second ...
... wilt Antiope the fair , Or young Hermione beyond compare ; Praise all the charms that age of beauty bore , But with my Cynthia let them vie no more ; Still less compared with forms of lesser grace , Would a stern judge award her second ...
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... wilt to quench our mutual love , To mock thy toil still stronger will it prove ; Nor safe the task ; thy tricks she soon will know : Once sting her pride , and she's no silent foe . Me too thy friendship she will bid resign , Nor e'er ...
... wilt to quench our mutual love , To mock thy toil still stronger will it prove ; Nor safe the task ; thy tricks she soon will know : Once sting her pride , and she's no silent foe . Me too thy friendship she will bid resign , Nor e'er ...
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... wilt thou go , To sob thy tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with blanching cheek betray thy fears ! Then will thy faltering tongue refuse its part , Nor wilt thou know thy name , or ...
... wilt thou go , To sob thy tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with blanching cheek betray thy fears ! Then will thy faltering tongue refuse its part , Nor wilt thou know thy name , or ...
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... wilt , then , o'er Ionia's lands ; Or where Pactolus rolls his golden sands ; Tread , if thou wilt , the earth , or 8 [ BOOK I. PROPERTIUS .
... wilt , then , o'er Ionia's lands ; Or where Pactolus rolls his golden sands ; Tread , if thou wilt , the earth , or 8 [ BOOK I. PROPERTIUS .
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... wilt thou mourn thy melancholy plight , While camps and chieftains rest in endless night . Then wilt thou strike in vain the melting lyre , Love , learnt too late , oft dulls the Muses ' fire ! Then shall I soar above the tuneful throng ...
... wilt thou mourn thy melancholy plight , While camps and chieftains rest in endless night . Then wilt thou strike in vain the melting lyre , Love , learnt too late , oft dulls the Muses ' fire ! Then shall I soar above the tuneful throng ...
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arms bade beauty beneath Bishop bliss Boötes bore Brasenose College breast brow Cæsar Callimachus Cambridge canst charm Cheltenham College Church Church of England Crown 8vo Cynthia dark death Dost E'en e'er Edward Meyrick Goulburn eyes fair fall false fame fate fear fire golden hair hear heart Heaven Henry Parry Liddon Holy John Henry Blunt Jove late Fellow Lecturer life's London Lord love's lovers lyre maid maidens mark'd Merton College methinks Muses ne'er never night nought o'er once Oxford Phoebus poor prayers Propertius roam Roman Rome Sackville College Second Edition Sermons shade shame shore shrine sing sleep Small 8vo soft song spurn stern stream tale Tarpeia tears tell thee thine thou art thou wilt throng tomb Trinity College Twas Venus wave weary weep wilt thou wine woo'd wouldst wrath yield yore
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