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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... bear no fuch pleasant fruit There where they firft grew , as where they are new fet . Perfumes , the more they're chaf'd , the more they render Their pleasant scents ; and fo affliction Expreffeth virtue fully , whether true , Or elfe ...
... bear no fuch pleasant fruit There where they firft grew , as where they are new fet . Perfumes , the more they're chaf'd , the more they render Their pleasant scents ; and fo affliction Expreffeth virtue fully , whether true , Or elfe ...
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... 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 fimple thief brags of his own attaint ? ' Tis double wrong , to truant with your bed ...
... 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 fimple thief brags of his own attaint ? ' Tis double wrong , to truant with your bed ...
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... bears it , and abides Like a falfe ftar , that quenches as it glides . Beaumont's and Fletcher's Bloody Brother ... bear about you valour's whetstone , anger ; Which fets an edge upon the fword , and makes it Cut with a fpirit ; you ...
... bears it , and abides Like a falfe ftar , that quenches as it glides . Beaumont's and Fletcher's Bloody Brother ... bear about you valour's whetstone , anger ; Which fets an edge upon the fword , and makes it Cut with a fpirit ; you ...
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... bear : Some through love's feat , the liver , passage make , As if our archers had been Cupids there : Some ftrike life's feat , the heart , fo that you can Scarce tell , if death did fhoot them or a man . As when the colder region of ...
... bear : Some through love's feat , the liver , passage make , As if our archers had been Cupids there : Some ftrike life's feat , the heart , fo that you can Scarce tell , if death did fhoot them or a man . As when the colder region of ...
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... bears , To fignify the mildness of his mind , That fatiate with spoil , refuseth blood . But when Aurora mounts the fecond time , As red as fcarlet is his furniture , Then must his kindled wrath be quench'd with blood Not sparing any ...
... bears , To fignify the mildness of his mind , That fatiate with spoil , refuseth blood . But when Aurora mounts the fecond time , As red as fcarlet is his furniture , Then must his kindled wrath be quench'd with blood Not sparing any ...
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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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