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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... look into the many excellent ancient poets , from whom the following fheets are taken , whofe thoughts might often have claimed a preference , or , at least , an equality with those they have inferted in their collec- tions , the dress ...
... look into the many excellent ancient poets , from whom the following fheets are taken , whofe thoughts might often have claimed a preference , or , at least , an equality with those they have inferted in their collec- tions , the dress ...
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... Look what was , theirs , is in king Henry's hands , His wealth before lay in the abbey - lands . 2. Indeed these things you have alledg'd , my lord , When , God doth know , the infant yet unborn , Will curfe the time the abbies were ...
... Look what was , theirs , is in king Henry's hands , His wealth before lay in the abbey - lands . 2. Indeed these things you have alledg'd , my lord , When , God doth know , the infant yet unborn , Will curfe the time the abbies were ...
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... Look how one wave another ftill pursueth , When fome great tempeft holds their troops in chace : Or as one hour another clofe reneweth ; Or posting day supplies another's place ; So do the billows of affliction beat me , And hand in ...
... Look how one wave another ftill pursueth , When fome great tempeft holds their troops in chace : Or as one hour another clofe reneweth ; Or posting day supplies another's place ; So do the billows of affliction beat me , And hand in ...
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... Look fweet , fpeak fair ; become disloyalty : Apparel vice , like virtue's harbinger ; Bear a fair prefence , tho ' your heart be tainted : Teach fin the carriage of a holy faint ; Be fecret - falfe : What needs fhe be acquainted ? What ...
... Look fweet , fpeak fair ; become disloyalty : Apparel vice , like virtue's harbinger ; Bear a fair prefence , tho ' your heart be tainted : Teach fin the carriage of a holy faint ; Be fecret - falfe : What needs fhe be acquainted ? What ...
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... look upon her , Dandle her upon my knee , and give her fugar - fops ? All the new gowns i'th ' parish will not please her , If fhe be high - bred , for there's the sport she aims at , Nor all the feathers in the fryars . i . Then take a ...
... look upon her , Dandle her upon my knee , and give her fugar - fops ? All the new gowns i'th ' parish will not please her , If fhe be high - bred , for there's the sport she aims at , Nor all the feathers in the fryars . i . Then take a ...
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys,Thomas Hayward No preview available - 2016 |
The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys,Thomas Hayward, Sir No preview available - 2016 |
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