The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: To which are Prefixed Short Sketches of the ... Author's Family, and Also of His Life, Volumes 1-2T. Cadell, 1793 - English literature |
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... but more diftinguished for her beauty and amiable manners . She married Daniel , the seventh Earl of Winchelsea , and third Earl of Nottingham , in the year 1729 , and died in the year 1734 . B 2 Oh Oh may her eyes ( to her this verse is.
... but more diftinguished for her beauty and amiable manners . She married Daniel , the seventh Earl of Winchelsea , and third Earl of Nottingham , in the year 1729 , and died in the year 1734 . B 2 Oh Oh may her eyes ( to her this verse is.
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... Beauty can little execution do , Unless fhe borrows half her arms from you ; Few , like PYGMALION , doat on lifeless charms , Or care to clasp a statue in their arms ; But breafts of flint muft melt with fierce defire , When art and ...
... Beauty can little execution do , Unless fhe borrows half her arms from you ; Few , like PYGMALION , doat on lifeless charms , Or care to clasp a statue in their arms ; But breafts of flint muft melt with fierce defire , When art and ...
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... Beauty's queen , New glories o'er her form each moment rise , And all the Goddess opens to his eyes . Now hafte , my Muse , pursue thy deftin'd way , What dreffes beft become the dancer , fay , The rules of drefs forget not to impart ...
... Beauty's queen , New glories o'er her form each moment rise , And all the Goddess opens to his eyes . Now hafte , my Muse , pursue thy deftin'd way , What dreffes beft become the dancer , fay , The rules of drefs forget not to impart ...
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... pureft light , Cloath'd in the dusky mantle of the night . But far from you be all those treach❜rous arts , That wound with painted charms unwary hearts Dancing's Dancing's a touchftone that true beauty tries , Nor fuffers [ 8 ]
... pureft light , Cloath'd in the dusky mantle of the night . But far from you be all those treach❜rous arts , That wound with painted charms unwary hearts Dancing's Dancing's a touchftone that true beauty tries , Nor fuffers [ 8 ]
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... beauty tries , Nor fuffers charms that nature's hand denies : Tho ' for a while we may with wonder view The rofy blush , and skin of lovely hue , Yet foon the dance will cause the cheeks to glow , And melt the waxen lips , and neck of ...
... beauty tries , Nor fuffers charms that nature's hand denies : Tho ' for a while we may with wonder view The rofy blush , and skin of lovely hue , Yet foon the dance will cause the cheeks to glow , And melt the waxen lips , and neck of ...
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Page 5 - Jig difplays the nimble fair, At every ftep new beauties we explore, And worfhip now, what we admir'd before : So when ^ENEAS in the TYRIAN grove, Fair VENUS met, the charming queen of Love, The beauteous Goddefs, whilft unmov'd...
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