The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry |
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... fate in poetry , it is ten to one but he muft give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a ge- nius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self ...
... fate in poetry , it is ten to one but he muft give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a ge- nius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self ...
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... fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious . VI . But foon , too foon , the lover turns his eyes : Again the falls , again fhe dies , fhe dies ! How wilt thou now the fatal fifters move ...
... fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious . VI . But foon , too foon , the lover turns his eyes : Again the falls , again fhe dies , fhe dies ! How wilt thou now the fatal fifters move ...
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... fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious . VI . But foon , too foon , the lover turns his eyes : Again the falls , again fhe dies , fhe dies ! How wilt thou now the fatal fifters move ...
... fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious . VI . But foon , too foon , the lover turns his eyes : Again the falls , again fhe dies , fhe dies ! How wilt thou now the fatal fifters move ...
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... fate more hard Gain'd but one trump , and one Plebeian card . With his broad fabre next , a chief in years , The hoary Majefty of Spades appears , VARIATIONS . Ver . II , 12. Originally in the first edition , In various talk the ...
... fate more hard Gain'd but one trump , and one Plebeian card . With his broad fabre next , a chief in years , The hoary Majefty of Spades appears , VARIATIONS . Ver . II , 12. Originally in the first edition , In various talk the ...
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... fate , and with a figh retir'd . The Peer now fpreads the glittering forfex wide , 150 T'inclose the Lock ; now joins it , to divide . Ev'n then , before the fatal engine clos'd , A wretched fylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the ...
... fate , and with a figh retir'd . The Peer now fpreads the glittering forfex wide , 150 T'inclose the Lock ; now joins it , to divide . Ev'n then , before the fatal engine clos'd , A wretched fylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the ...
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