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... to ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE . ) WP Carey Theirs is the sunshine of the Breast Third Edition . DUBLIN Gray Printed for James Moore , College Green 1789 Gene MAX SINC THE PREFACE . INCE Poetry affords young perfons an. Johnnt Howell .
... to ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE . ) WP Carey Theirs is the sunshine of the Breast Third Edition . DUBLIN Gray Printed for James Moore , College Green 1789 Gene MAX SINC THE PREFACE . INCE Poetry affords young perfons an. Johnnt Howell .
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... breast . Here rifing boughs adorn'd with fummer's pride , Project their waving umbrage o'er the tide ; While , gently perching on the leafy spray , Each feather'd warbler tunes his various lay : And , while thy praise they symphonize ...
... breast . Here rifing boughs adorn'd with fummer's pride , Project their waving umbrage o'er the tide ; While , gently perching on the leafy spray , Each feather'd warbler tunes his various lay : And , while thy praise they symphonize ...
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... breast The vital flame ? For this was thy fair image Stampt on his foul in godlike lineaments ? For this dominion giv'n him abfolute O'er all thy works , only that he might reign Supreme in woe ? From the bieft fource of [ foul ills ...
... breast The vital flame ? For this was thy fair image Stampt on his foul in godlike lineaments ? For this dominion giv'n him abfolute O'er all thy works , only that he might reign Supreme in woe ? From the bieft fource of [ foul ills ...
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... breast Cordemn me if I check the plaufive string : Go to the wayward world ; complete the reft ; Be what the pureft mufe would wish to fing . Be fill thy felf : that open path of truth , [ fue ; Which led thee here , let manhood firm ...
... breast Cordemn me if I check the plaufive string : Go to the wayward world ; complete the reft ; Be what the pureft mufe would wish to fing . Be fill thy felf : that open path of truth , [ fue ; Which led thee here , let manhood firm ...
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... breast . With all the goddefs fill'd , already glow'd his The heav'nly maid with ftrength divine endued But with the gods , and godlike men , I dwell ; " Me , his fupreme delight , th ' Almighty Site Regards well - pleas'd : whatever ...
... breast . With all the goddefs fill'd , already glow'd his The heav'nly maid with ftrength divine endued But with the gods , and godlike men , I dwell ; " Me , his fupreme delight , th ' Almighty Site Regards well - pleas'd : whatever ...
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