Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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When I resemble her to thee , How sweet and fair she seems to be . Tell her that's young , And shuns to have her graces spied , That , hadst thou sprung In deserts , where no men abide , Thou must have uncommended died .
When I resemble her to thee , How sweet and fair she seems to be . Tell her that's young , And shuns to have her graces spied , That , hadst thou sprung In deserts , where no men abide , Thou must have uncommended died .
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| Title | Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
| Author | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Editor | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Contributor | Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Publisher | Oliver & Boyd, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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