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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... grows erect , as that comes home . Such wilt thou be to me , who must Like th ' other foot , obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle juft , And makes me end where I begun . Dr. John Donne . It is as if a night fhould fhade noon ...
... grows erect , as that comes home . Such wilt thou be to me , who must Like th ' other foot , obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle juft , And makes me end where I begun . Dr. John Donne . It is as if a night fhould fhade noon ...
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... Grow dark , if it too long want the embrace Of it's lov'd pyle ? how ftraight it buried lies In its own ruins . Robert Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship . 1. How fad and dismal found the farewells which Poor lovers take , whom ...
... Grow dark , if it too long want the embrace Of it's lov'd pyle ? how ftraight it buried lies In its own ruins . Robert Mead's Combat of Love and Friendship . 1. How fad and dismal found the farewells which Poor lovers take , whom ...
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... grow unjust unto yourself , To own the error of your fate . 2. Fortune and fate are merely names , For were they real pow'rs , they'd not endure , That fools fhould prove them guilty of our ills . 1. Your paffion makes you fubject to ...
... grow unjust unto yourself , To own the error of your fate . 2. Fortune and fate are merely names , For were they real pow'rs , they'd not endure , That fools fhould prove them guilty of our ills . 1. Your paffion makes you fubject to ...
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... of distress and misery are grown . Daniel , on Wriothefly Earl of Southampton . Yet miferable ourselves why fhould we deem , Sith none are fo , but in their own efteam ? Who Who in diftrefs from refolution flies , Drayton . Is 16 ADV.
... of distress and misery are grown . Daniel , on Wriothefly Earl of Southampton . Yet miferable ourselves why fhould we deem , Sith none are fo , but in their own efteam ? Who Who in diftrefs from refolution flies , Drayton . Is 16 ADV.
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... of fire . Sir Robert Howard on Charles II . The wife more Since art has oft reftor'd what fortune loft . active grow by being croft , Roger Boyle's Earl of Orrery's Guzman . ADVICE . ADVICE . Let me you intreat , For to unfold ADV 19.
... of fire . Sir Robert Howard on Charles II . The wife more Since art has oft reftor'd what fortune loft . active grow by being croft , Roger Boyle's Earl of Orrery's Guzman . ADVICE . ADVICE . Let me you intreat , For to unfold ADV 19.
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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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