Essays on Song-writing; with a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritEvans, 1810 - 352 pages |
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... hour 231 Strephon has fashion , wit , and youth 238 Strephon , when you see me fly 119 Swain thy hopeless passion smother 207 Sweet are the charms of her I love 265 Sweet maid , if thou wouldst charm my sight 342 Take , oh , take those ...
... hour 231 Strephon has fashion , wit , and youth 238 Strephon , when you see me fly 119 Swain thy hopeless passion smother 207 Sweet are the charms of her I love 265 Sweet maid , if thou wouldst charm my sight 342 Take , oh , take those ...
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John Aikin (M.D.). There is one dark and sullen hour The sun was sunk beneath the hill The western sky was purpled o'er . This bottle's the sun of our table 144 70 77 342 Tho ' cruel you seem to my pain 146 Thy fatal shafts unerring move ...
John Aikin (M.D.). There is one dark and sullen hour The sun was sunk beneath the hill The western sky was purpled o'er . This bottle's the sun of our table 144 70 77 342 Tho ' cruel you seem to my pain 146 Thy fatal shafts unerring move ...
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... hour ! mistaken maids ! When Cupid sought the Muses ' shades : Of their sweetest notes beguil'd , By the sly insidious child ; Now of power his darts are found , Twice ten thousand times to wound . Now no more the slacken'd strings ...
... hour ! mistaken maids ! When Cupid sought the Muses ' shades : Of their sweetest notes beguil'd , By the sly insidious child ; Now of power his darts are found , Twice ten thousand times to wound . Now no more the slacken'd strings ...
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... d his pensive guest : And spread his vegetable store , And gaily prest , and smil'd ; And skill'd in legendary lore , The lingering hours beguilād . Around in sympathetic mirth Its tricks the kitten tries ; 44 BALLADS AND.
... d his pensive guest : And spread his vegetable store , And gaily prest , and smil'd ; And skill'd in legendary lore , The lingering hours beguilād . Around in sympathetic mirth Its tricks the kitten tries ; 44 BALLADS AND.
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... hour the mercenary crowd , With richest presents strove : Among the rest young Edwin bow'd , But never talk'd of love . In humble simplest habit clad , No wealth nor power had he ; Wisdom and worth were all he had , But these were all ...
... hour the mercenary crowd , With richest presents strove : Among the rest young Edwin bow'd , But never talk'd of love . In humble simplest habit clad , No wealth nor power had he ; Wisdom and worth were all he had , But these were all ...
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