Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas TomkinsJ. Wallis, 1785 - 204 pages |
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... foft'ning ' till high noon in down , Or lolling fan her in the fultry town , Unnerv'd with reft ; and turn her own disease , Or fofter others in luxurious eafe ; I mount the courser , call the deep - mouth'd hounds , The fox unkennell'd ...
... foft'ning ' till high noon in down , Or lolling fan her in the fultry town , Unnerv'd with reft ; and turn her own disease , Or fofter others in luxurious eafe ; I mount the courser , call the deep - mouth'd hounds , The fox unkennell'd ...
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... foft hours refine , And Tully's Tufculum revives in mine : Now to grave books I bid the mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather good than great : Or o'er the works of eafy fancy rove , Where flutes and innocence amuse the grove : The ...
... foft hours refine , And Tully's Tufculum revives in mine : Now to grave books I bid the mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather good than great : Or o'er the works of eafy fancy rove , Where flutes and innocence amuse the grove : The ...
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... foft lute he play'd ; But the foft lute refresh'd the lovely maid : Confpiring elms their umbrage shed around , Wav'd with applause , and listen'd to the found . Sweet Philomel , the chorifter of love , The mufical enchantress of the ...
... foft lute he play'd ; But the foft lute refresh'd the lovely maid : Confpiring elms their umbrage shed around , Wav'd with applause , and listen'd to the found . Sweet Philomel , the chorifter of love , The mufical enchantress of the ...
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... foft'ning founds , and fadly pleasing strains , Breathe out the lover's joys , and lover's pains . He fung ; and ceas'd her rival notes to hear , As his dy'd lift'ning in the ambient air . But now , too late , her noble folly found ...
... foft'ning founds , and fadly pleasing strains , Breathe out the lover's joys , and lover's pains . He fung ; and ceas'd her rival notes to hear , As his dy'd lift'ning in the ambient air . But now , too late , her noble folly found ...
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... foft , its filken wings . XVI . Not a leaf has leave to stir , Nature's lull'd - ferene - and still ; Quiet e'en the shepherd's cur , Sleeping on the heath - clad hill : XVII . Languid is the landscape round , Till the fresh descending ...
... foft , its filken wings . XVI . Not a leaf has leave to stir , Nature's lull'd - ferene - and still ; Quiet e'en the shepherd's cur , Sleeping on the heath - clad hill : XVII . Languid is the landscape round , Till the fresh descending ...
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