Cowley, Denham, MiltonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such engredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne ...
... youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such engredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne ...
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... youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost Light and strength , dark and tir'd , must then ride post . All that man has to do is to live and 20 LIFE OF ...
... youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost Light and strength , dark and tir'd , must then ride post . All that man has to do is to live and 20 LIFE OF ...
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... youth . It is not in this sense that poesy is said to be a kind of painting ; it is not the picture of the poet , but of things and persons imagined by him . He may be in his own practice and disposition a philosopher , nay a stoic ...
... youth . It is not in this sense that poesy is said to be a kind of painting ; it is not the picture of the poet , but of things and persons imagined by him . He may be in his own practice and disposition a philosopher , nay a stoic ...
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... youth and kind Philocrates ( So was her brother call'd ) grew soon so dear , So true and constant in their amities , And in that league so strictly joined were , That death itself could not their friendship sever , But , as they liv'd ...
... youth and kind Philocrates ( So was her brother call'd ) grew soon so dear , So true and constant in their amities , And in that league so strictly joined were , That death itself could not their friendship sever , But , as they liv'd ...
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... youth increas'd his amorous fire . THE SONG . TIME ! fly with greater speed away , Add feathers to thy wings , Till thy haste in flying brings That wish'd - for , and expected day . • Comfort's Sun we then shall see , Though at first it ...
... youth increas'd his amorous fire . THE SONG . TIME ! fly with greater speed away , Add feathers to thy wings , Till thy haste in flying brings That wish'd - for , and expected day . • Comfort's Sun we then shall see , Though at first it ...
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