Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... live , if I grow old ; " Tis time short pleasures now to take Of little life the best to make , And manage wisely the last stake . VII . GOLD . A MIGHTY pain to love it is , And ' tis a pain that pain to miss But , of all pains , the ...
... live , if I grow old ; " Tis time short pleasures now to take Of little life the best to make , And manage wisely the last stake . VII . GOLD . A MIGHTY pain to love it is , And ' tis a pain that pain to miss But , of all pains , the ...
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... live ; Thou , to whose share so little bread did fall , In that miraculous year , when manna rain'd on all . " Thus spake the Muse , and spake it with a smile , That seem'd at once to pity and revile . And to her thus , raising his ...
... live ; Thou , to whose share so little bread did fall , In that miraculous year , when manna rain'd on all . " Thus spake the Muse , and spake it with a smile , That seem'd at once to pity and revile . And to her thus , raising his ...
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... live , and embracing die ! She , who is all the world , and can exclude In deserts solitude . I should have then this only fear- Lest men , when they my pleasures see , Should hither throng to live like me , And so make a city here ...
... live , and embracing die ! She , who is all the world , and can exclude In deserts solitude . I should have then this only fear- Lest men , when they my pleasures see , Should hither throng to live like me , And so make a city here ...
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... live with him ; and the necessity of a female head Bridgewater , then Lord President of Wales ; and of such a house , caused Milton , in 1643 , to form a also by his " Arcades , " part of an entertainment connexion with the daughter of ...
... live with him ; and the necessity of a female head Bridgewater , then Lord President of Wales ; and of such a house , caused Milton , in 1643 , to form a also by his " Arcades , " part of an entertainment connexion with the daughter of ...
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... live with her , and live with thee . In unreproved pleasures free . To hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull Night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ; From the side of some ...
... live with her , and live with thee . In unreproved pleasures free . To hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull Night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ; From the side of some ...
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