Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors ; from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 2Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... sweet Lavinia ; till , at length , compelled By strong Necessity's supreme command , With smiling patience in her looks , she went To glean Palemon's fields . The pride of swains Palemon was , the generous , and the rich ; Who led the ...
... sweet Lavinia ; till , at length , compelled By strong Necessity's supreme command , With smiling patience in her looks , she went To glean Palemon's fields . The pride of swains Palemon was , the generous , and the rich ; Who led the ...
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... sweet Philomel would wail , Or stock - doves ' plain amid the forest deep , That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep . Full in the passage of ...
... sweet Philomel would wail , Or stock - doves ' plain amid the forest deep , That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep . Full in the passage of ...
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... sweet torpor he was plunged deep , Ne could himself from ceaseless yawning keep ; While o'er his eyes the drowsy liquor ran , Through which his half - waked soul would faintly peep , Then taking his black staff , he called his man , And ...
... sweet torpor he was plunged deep , Ne could himself from ceaseless yawning keep ; While o'er his eyes the drowsy liquor ran , Through which his half - waked soul would faintly peep , Then taking his black staff , he called his man , And ...
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... Sweet smells the birk , green grows , green grows the grass , Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan , Fair hangs the apple frae the rock , Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan . on the right hand side of the picture . ) 24 FROM 1727 TO 1780 ...
... Sweet smells the birk , green grows , green grows the grass , Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan , Fair hangs the apple frae the rock , Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan . on the right hand side of the picture . ) 24 FROM 1727 TO 1780 ...
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