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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... beauty or inftruction . This , his friend the publisher feems to have under- ftood ; for he tells us , his author would not be perfuaded to enlarge his method , and promises ample additions in the fecond impreffion . So affected a piece ...
... beauty or inftruction . This , his friend the publisher feems to have under- ftood ; for he tells us , his author would not be perfuaded to enlarge his method , and promises ample additions in the fecond impreffion . So affected a piece ...
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... beauty and fra- grance , which , like thofe in the Garden of the Mufes mentioned above , feem to have withered affoon as he gathered them . The next Collection of this kind , is THE ENGLISH PARNASSUS , or , An Help to English Poefy , by ...
... beauty and fra- grance , which , like thofe in the Garden of the Mufes mentioned above , feem to have withered affoon as he gathered them . The next Collection of this kind , is THE ENGLISH PARNASSUS , or , An Help to English Poefy , by ...
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... fair objects take their flight . But fince want provokes defire , When we lose what we before Have enjoy'd , as we want more , So is love more fet on fire . Ben . Johnson . Love Love doth with an hungry eye Glut on beauty , ABS ...
... fair objects take their flight . But fince want provokes defire , When we lose what we before Have enjoy'd , as we want more , So is love more fet on fire . Ben . Johnson . Love Love doth with an hungry eye Glut on beauty , ABS ...
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William Oldys. Love doth with an hungry eye Glut on beauty , and you may Safer fnatch the tyger's prey , Than his vital food away . Yet though abfence for a space , Sharpen the keen appetite , Long continuance doth quité All love's ...
William Oldys. Love doth with an hungry eye Glut on beauty , and you may Safer fnatch the tyger's prey , Than his vital food away . Yet though abfence for a space , Sharpen the keen appetite , Long continuance doth quité All love's ...
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... . They fay he fits All day in contemplation of a ftatue Nabbs's Bride . With ne'er a nofe , and dotes on the decays , With greater love than the self - lov'd Narciffus Did " Did on his beauty : How fhall I approach ANT 39.
... . They fay he fits All day in contemplation of a ftatue Nabbs's Bride . With ne'er a nofe , and dotes on the decays , With greater love than the self - lov'd Narciffus Did " Did on his beauty : How fhall I approach ANT 39.
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys,Thomas Hayward No preview available - 2016 |
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