Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... Maid ... To the Earl of Warwick , on the Death of Mr. Addison . 322 240 Alma : or , the Progress of the Mind . In Three Cantoes . Canto I. II . III . ... 246 249 An Ode , inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland 253 at Windsor . An Imitation ...
... Maid ... To the Earl of Warwick , on the Death of Mr. Addison . 322 240 Alma : or , the Progress of the Mind . In Three Cantoes . Canto I. II . III . ... 246 249 An Ode , inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland 253 at Windsor . An Imitation ...
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... maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place ( Though loth and angry she to part With the possession of my heart ) To ...
... maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place ( Though loth and angry she to part With the possession of my heart ) To ...
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... maid ; To whom ensued a vacancy : Thousand worse passions then possest The interregnum of my breast ; Bless me from such an anarchy ! Gentle Henrietta then , And a third Mary , next began ; Then Joan , and Jane , and Audria ; And then a ...
... maid ; To whom ensued a vacancy : Thousand worse passions then possest The interregnum of my breast ; Bless me from such an anarchy ! Gentle Henrietta then , And a third Mary , next began ; Then Joan , and Jane , and Audria ; And then a ...
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... maid . " Raphael , " said he , " thou hear'st what stir on Earth Satan , from Hell ' scap'd through the darksome gulf , Hath rais'd in Paradise ; and how disturb'd This night the human pair ; how he designs In them at once to ruin all ...
... maid . " Raphael , " said he , " thou hear'st what stir on Earth Satan , from Hell ' scap'd through the darksome gulf , Hath rais'd in Paradise ; and how disturb'd This night the human pair ; how he designs In them at once to ruin all ...
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... maid . For Solomon , he liv'd at ease , and full Of honor , wealth , high fare , aim'd not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state ; Thence to the bait of women lay expos'd : But he , whom we attempt , is wiser far Than Solomon ...
... maid . For Solomon , he liv'd at ease , and full Of honor , wealth , high fare , aim'd not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state ; Thence to the bait of women lay expos'd : But he , whom we attempt , is wiser far Than Solomon ...
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