The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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... this bold painter mean ? When was I bathing thus , and naked feen ? Pleas'd CUPID heard , and check'd his mother's pride : And who's blind now , mamma ? the urchin cry'd , " Tis CHLOE's eye , and cheek , and lip D 5 Of the EPIGRAM . 57 5.
... this bold painter mean ? When was I bathing thus , and naked feen ? Pleas'd CUPID heard , and check'd his mother's pride : And who's blind now , mamma ? the urchin cry'd , " Tis CHLOE's eye , and cheek , and lip D 5 Of the EPIGRAM . 57 5.
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... Pleas'd thy pale ghoft , or grac'd thy mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd , By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd . By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd , By ftrangers honour'd , and by strangers mourn ...
... Pleas'd thy pale ghoft , or grac'd thy mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd , By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd . By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd , By ftrangers honour'd , and by strangers mourn ...
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... pleas'd at heart , and not with fancy's dream , In filent happiness I reft unknown ; Content with what I am , not what I feem , I live for DELIA , and myfelf alone . IX . Ah foolish man ! who thus of her poffefs'd , Could float and ...
... pleas'd at heart , and not with fancy's dream , In filent happiness I reft unknown ; Content with what I am , not what I feem , I live for DELIA , and myfelf alone . IX . Ah foolish man ! who thus of her poffefs'd , Could float and ...
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... Pleas'd the green luftre of the scales furvey , And with their forked tongue fhall innocently play . Rife , crown'd with light , imperial 17 Salem rise ! Exalt thy tow'ry head , and lift thy eyes ! 85 18 See , a long race thy fpacious ...
... Pleas'd the green luftre of the scales furvey , And with their forked tongue fhall innocently play . Rife , crown'd with light , imperial 17 Salem rise ! Exalt thy tow'ry head , and lift thy eyes ! 85 18 See , a long race thy fpacious ...
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... in heav'nly numbers flows . How am I pleas'd to fearch the hills and woods For rifing fprings and celebrated floods ; To view the Nar , tumultuous in his course , Of the EPISTLE . 117 A Letter to the Rt Hon Charles Lord Halifax, by Addifon.
... in heav'nly numbers flows . How am I pleas'd to fearch the hills and woods For rifing fprings and celebrated floods ; To view the Nar , tumultuous in his course , Of the EPISTLE . 117 A Letter to the Rt Hon Charles Lord Halifax, by Addifon.
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