Mr. Hervey's Contemplations on a Flower-garden: Done Into Blank Verse, (after the Manner of Dr. Young) by T. Newcomb, M.A. |
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... shade . There sport the finny race , all filver'd o'er With gaudy fcales , which ample fport fupply To the ftill patient angler , and afford The The richest treat which luxury demands , Or taste , 12 CONTEMPLATIONS on a.
... shade . There sport the finny race , all filver'd o'er With gaudy fcales , which ample fport fupply To the ftill patient angler , and afford The The richest treat which luxury demands , Or taste , 12 CONTEMPLATIONS on a.
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... ftill the frame fuftains ! Say , should the rapid fun his progress take Across the heavens , unguided by his hand The comet's blazing orb , or planet's roll , Their flights unmark'd , their motions unreftrain'd , By that directing will ...
... ftill the frame fuftains ! Say , should the rapid fun his progress take Across the heavens , unguided by his hand The comet's blazing orb , or planet's roll , Their flights unmark'd , their motions unreftrain'd , By that directing will ...
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... ftill more fair . A regular and uniform display Of nature's gifts , prefented to the eye In one unvaried luftre , foon would tire , And court th ' offended fight more charms to find In other objects , different in their hues . But But ...
... ftill more fair . A regular and uniform display Of nature's gifts , prefented to the eye In one unvaried luftre , foon would tire , And court th ' offended fight more charms to find In other objects , different in their hues . But But ...
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... ftill fond the fenfe to entertain , Exhibits , to regale the raptur'd eye , Something for ever new , each species grac❜d • With its own native luftre , proud to wear Its own peculiar beauties , nor affume A radiance borrow'd from a ...
... ftill fond the fenfe to entertain , Exhibits , to regale the raptur'd eye , Something for ever new , each species grac❜d • With its own native luftre , proud to wear Its own peculiar beauties , nor affume A radiance borrow'd from a ...
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... they confpire To lend each other new augmented charms . Lord of the univerfe ! how grand , how fair Are all thy works , by wifdom all contriv'd , And And with exactness ftill more nicely plann'd ? A fingle 34 CONTEMPLATIONS on a.
... they confpire To lend each other new augmented charms . Lord of the univerfe ! how grand , how fair Are all thy works , by wifdom all contriv'd , And And with exactness ftill more nicely plann'd ? A fingle 34 CONTEMPLATIONS on a.
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