The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 - English drama |
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... heav'n ; I grant that fire , without a fresh supply , May for a while be ftill a fire ; but yet How doth its luftre languish , and itself Grow dark , if it too long want the embrace Of it's lov'd pyle ? how ftraight it buried lies In ...
... heav'n ; I grant that fire , without a fresh supply , May for a while be ftill a fire ; but yet How doth its luftre languish , and itself Grow dark , if it too long want the embrace Of it's lov'd pyle ? how ftraight it buried lies In ...
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... of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rose , and innocent As when heav'n lent her us . Her mind , as well As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes B 5 As ACC 9 So when the winter, to the fpring bequeaths ...
... of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rose , and innocent As when heav'n lent her us . Her mind , as well As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes B 5 As ACC 9 So when the winter, to the fpring bequeaths ...
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... heav'nly Ops , To thruft his doting father from his chair , And place himself in the ampyreal heav'n ; Mov'd me to manage arms against thy state . C 2 What What better prefident than mighty Fove ? Nature that fram'd AMA AMB 27.
... heav'nly Ops , To thruft his doting father from his chair , And place himself in the ampyreal heav'n ; Mov'd me to manage arms against thy state . C 2 What What better prefident than mighty Fove ? Nature that fram'd AMA AMB 27.
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... heav'n is high ; Yet , with your middle finger only found them , And you fhall pierce them to the very earth . Chapman's First Part of Byron's Confpiracy . ARCHER S. Our English of their strings more care did take , Whose winged ...
... heav'n is high ; Yet , with your middle finger only found them , And you fhall pierce them to the very earth . Chapman's First Part of Byron's Confpiracy . ARCHER S. Our English of their strings more care did take , Whose winged ...
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... heav'n is blown . His warlike fhield all closely cover'd was , Ne might of mortal eye be ever seen ; Not made of steel , nor of enduring brass , Such earthly metals foon confumed been ; But all of diamond , perfect , pure and clean It ...
... heav'n is blown . His warlike fhield all closely cover'd was , Ne might of mortal eye be ever seen ; Not made of steel , nor of enduring brass , Such earthly metals foon confumed been ; But all of diamond , perfect , pure and clean It ...
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys,Thomas Hayward No preview available - 2016 |
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