The Art of English Poetry: Containing. Rules for making verses. A collection of the most natural, agreeable, and sublime thoughts ... that are to be found in the best English poets. A dictionary of rhymes. I.. II.. III.Hitch and Hawes, 1762 - English language |
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... place ; We call one Step a Race . We grow at last by Custom to believe , That really we live ; Whilst all these Shadows , that for Things we take , ( Cowli Are but the empty Dreams , which in Death's Sleep we make . Life is not to be ...
... place ; We call one Step a Race . We grow at last by Custom to believe , That really we live ; Whilst all these Shadows , that for Things we take , ( Cowli Are but the empty Dreams , which in Death's Sleep we make . Life is not to be ...
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... Place ; To Darkness ' Curtains he retires , In fympathizing Night he rolls his fmoaky Fires . When , Goddefs , thou lift'ft up thy waken'd Head Out of the Morning's Purple Bed , Thy Choir of Birds about Thee play , And all the joyful ...
... Place ; To Darkness ' Curtains he retires , In fympathizing Night he rolls his fmoaky Fires . When , Goddefs , thou lift'ft up thy waken'd Head Out of the Morning's Purple Bed , Thy Choir of Birds about Thee play , And all the joyful ...
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... Place .. As when by Lightnings , Jove's etherial Pow'r Foretels the rattling Hail , or weighty Show'r , Or fends foft Snows to whiten all the Shore , Or bids the brazen Throat of War to roar ; By Fits one Flash fucceeds as one expires ...
... Place .. As when by Lightnings , Jove's etherial Pow'r Foretels the rattling Hail , or weighty Show'r , Or fends foft Snows to whiten all the Shore , Or bids the brazen Throat of War to roar ; By Fits one Flash fucceeds as one expires ...
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... Place and Office first ordain'd : By thee were all Things made , and are fuftain'd . The Pow'r of Love , In Earth , and Seas , and Air , and Heav'n above , Rules , unrefifted , with an awful Nod ; By daily Miracles declar'd a God : Cowl ...
... Place and Office first ordain'd : By thee were all Things made , and are fuftain'd . The Pow'r of Love , In Earth , and Seas , and Air , and Heav'n above , Rules , unrefifted , with an awful Nod ; By daily Miracles declar'd a God : Cowl ...
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... Place ! ) By those dear Pleasures , aid my Arms in Fight , And make me conquer in my Patron's Right . For I am young , a Novice in the Trade , The Fool of Love , unpractis'd to perfuade ; And want the foothing Arts that catch the Fair ...
... Place ! ) By those dear Pleasures , aid my Arms in Fight , And make me conquer in my Patron's Right . For I am young , a Novice in the Trade , The Fool of Love , unpractis'd to perfuade ; And want the foothing Arts that catch the Fair ...
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Arms bafe becauſe Billows Blac Blood Breaft Breath caft Cleom Clouds Courſe Cowl Death defcends Defire Don Seb Dryd Dryd.Virg Earth ev'n ev'ry Eyes fafe falute fame Fate Fear feems fhall fhining fhould filent fing Fire firft firſt flain Flame Flood Flow'rs foft fome form'd fpread ftand ftill fuch fweet Gerunds Gods Ground Guife Head Heart Heav'n himſelf itſelf Jove laft laſt Lee Alex lefs Light Love Lyre mighty Milt Mufick muſt Night Numbers o'er Oedip Orph Ovid Paffion Pain Perfon Plain pleaſe Pleaſure Pope Hom Pow'r Pref Prefent Rage Reafon reft Rhymes rife roar Rofe Rowe Fair Pen Senfe Shak ſhake ſhe Shore Show'rs Skies Soul ſtands Stars ſtill Storm Tears Tempeft thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Thunder ticiples trembling Verbs Verfe vex'd Virg Waves whofe Wife Winds worfe
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