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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... force and native beauties of older times , notwith- standing their antiquated garb and manners . The religious heats that fubfifted during the reformation , were fo averse to the muses , that no poetical compofitions , of any merit ...
... force and native beauties of older times , notwith- standing their antiquated garb and manners . The religious heats that fubfifted during the reformation , were fo averse to the muses , that no poetical compofitions , of any merit ...
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... force to make it speed . Thomas Nabb's Unfortunate Mother . As the new moon th ' light of th ' old devours ; So do thy actions all thine ancestors . Baron's Mirza . As in a fhip fome climb the fhrouds , t'unfold The fail , fome fweep ...
... force to make it speed . Thomas Nabb's Unfortunate Mother . As the new moon th ' light of th ' old devours ; So do thy actions all thine ancestors . Baron's Mirza . As in a fhip fome climb the fhrouds , t'unfold The fail , fome fweep ...
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... force would have th'affection mov'd , When willingly men hold fuch gallants dear , Do Whose virtue makes their vice more vile appear . rage that any fhould be freely lov'd , Sir W. Alexander Earl of Sterline's Julius Cæfar . 1. I was ...
... force would have th'affection mov'd , When willingly men hold fuch gallants dear , Do Whose virtue makes their vice more vile appear . rage that any fhould be freely lov'd , Sir W. Alexander Earl of Sterline's Julius Cæfar . 1. I was ...
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... forces of his worthiness . Those parts of judgment which felicity Keeps as conceal'd , affliction must exprefs ; And only men fhew their abilities , And what they are , in their extremities . The world had never taken fo full note Of ...
... forces of his worthiness . Those parts of judgment which felicity Keeps as conceal'd , affliction must exprefs ; And only men fhew their abilities , And what they are , in their extremities . The world had never taken fo full note Of ...
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... force with which ' twas thrown : So in affliction's violence , he that's wife , The more he's caft down , will the higher rife . Nabb's Microcofmus . Afflictions they most profitable are To the beholder , and the fufferer : Bettering ...
... force with which ' twas thrown : So in affliction's violence , he that's wife , The more he's caft down , will the higher rife . Nabb's Microcofmus . Afflictions they most profitable are To the beholder , and the fufferer : Bettering ...
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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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