Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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... pleasure is , the chief purfuit , even if the fweets of it were not blended with utility . If indeed pleasure were the ultimate object of Poetry , there are fome who , in the rigour of auftere wisdom , would maintain that the precious ...
... pleasure is , the chief purfuit , even if the fweets of it were not blended with utility . If indeed pleasure were the ultimate object of Poetry , there are fome who , in the rigour of auftere wisdom , would maintain that the precious ...
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... Pleasure 151 with Pleasure Akenfide 189 Rife of Pleafure - 152 The End of Pleasure Paraphrafe on Pfalm , lxxiv . 16 , 17 Mifs Williams 190 , 152 Paraphrafe on Ifaiah , xlix . 15 ib . 191 Virtue and Piety 152 Paraphrafe on Matt . vii ...
... Pleasure 151 with Pleasure Akenfide 189 Rife of Pleafure - 152 The End of Pleasure Paraphrafe on Pfalm , lxxiv . 16 , 17 Mifs Williams 190 , 152 Paraphrafe on Ifaiah , xlix . 15 ib . 191 Virtue and Piety 152 Paraphrafe on Matt . vii ...
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... pleasure every pam , Subdues the hoftile forms to reft , And bids the universe be bleft . O Thou , whofe pleasing power I fing ! If right I touch the votive ftring , If equal praife I yield thy name , Still govern thou thy poet's flame ...
... pleasure every pam , Subdues the hoftile forms to reft , And bids the universe be bleft . O Thou , whofe pleasing power I fing ! If right I touch the votive ftring , If equal praife I yield thy name , Still govern thou thy poet's flame ...
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... pleasure tore From kings of all the then difcover'd globe ; And cried , forfooth , because his arm was ham- And had not room enough to do its work ? [ per'd , Alas ! how flim , difhonourably flim ! And cramm'd into a space we bluth to ...
... pleasure tore From kings of all the then difcover'd globe ; And cried , forfooth , because his arm was ham- And had not room enough to do its work ? [ per'd , Alas ! how flim , difhonourably flim ! And cramm'd into a space we bluth to ...
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... pleasure here , And travlling thro ' the boundlefslengthoffpace , Is quite unfurnith'd for that world to come ! Marks well the courfes of the far - fecn orbs , In that dread moment , how the frantic foul That roll with regular confufion ...
... pleasure here , And travlling thro ' the boundlefslengthoffpace , Is quite unfurnith'd for that world to come ! Marks well the courfes of the far - fecn orbs , In that dread moment , how the frantic foul That roll with regular confufion ...
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