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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... face of heav'n ; I grant that fire , without a fresh supply , May for a while be ftill a fire ; but yet How doth its luftre languish , and itself Grow dark , if it too long want the embrace Of it's lov'd pyle ? how ftraight it buried ...
... face of heav'n ; I grant that fire , without a fresh supply , May for a while be ftill a fire ; but yet How doth its luftre languish , and itself Grow dark , if it too long want the embrace Of it's lov'd pyle ? how ftraight it buried ...
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... graces of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rose , and innocent As when heav'n lent her us . Her mind , as well As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes B 5 As ACC 9 So when the winter, to the fpring bequeaths ...
... graces of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rose , and innocent As when heav'n lent her us . Her mind , as well As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes B 5 As ACC 9 So when the winter, to the fpring bequeaths ...
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William Oldys. As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes , or the fpreading weeds of vice . Robert Baron's Mirza . ACCUSATION . 1. You would grow unjust unto yourself , To own the error of your fate . 2. Fortune and fate are ...
William Oldys. As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes , or the fpreading weeds of vice . Robert Baron's Mirza . ACCUSATION . 1. You would grow unjust unto yourself , To own the error of your fate . 2. Fortune and fate are ...
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... face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , fcorning the bafe degrees By which he did afcend . So Cæfar may : And therefore think him as a ferpent's egg , Which ...
... face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , fcorning the bafe degrees By which he did afcend . So Cæfar may : And therefore think him as a ferpent's egg , Which ...
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... face . If I ftay , my rage Henry Killegrew's Confpiracy . Will hurry me to mischief , better leave her To certain ruin , than betray myself To danger of it . When ftrong tides meet tides In a contracted channel , they their force Refign ...
... face . If I ftay , my rage Henry Killegrew's Confpiracy . Will hurry me to mischief , better leave her To certain ruin , than betray myself To danger of it . When ftrong tides meet tides In a contracted channel , they their force Refign ...
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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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