Minor English Poets, 1660-1780: A Selection from Alexander Chalmers' The English Poets, Volume 6David P. French B. Blom, 1967 - English poetry |
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... Muse may faith or merit claim , ( A Muse too just to bribe with venal fame ) Soon shalt thou shine " in majesty avow'd ; As thy own goddess breaking thro ' a cloud . " Fame , like a nation - debt , tho ' long delay'd , With mighty int ...
... Muse may faith or merit claim , ( A Muse too just to bribe with venal fame ) Soon shalt thou shine " in majesty avow'd ; As thy own goddess breaking thro ' a cloud . " Fame , like a nation - debt , tho ' long delay'd , With mighty int ...
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... Muse , O ! Langhorne , would intrude ; Her lays are languid , but her heart is warm , Though not with Fancy's potent powers endu'd . Fancy , though erst she shed a glimmering ray , And op'd to fairy scenes my infant eye , From Pain and ...
... Muse , O ! Langhorne , would intrude ; Her lays are languid , but her heart is warm , Though not with Fancy's potent powers endu'd . Fancy , though erst she shed a glimmering ray , And op'd to fairy scenes my infant eye , From Pain and ...
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... Muse returns . For more , and still more busy scenes remain ; The promis'd schools of wise artificers In brass and iron . But another school Of gentler arts demands the Muse's song , Where first she learn'd to scan the measur'd verse ...
... Muse returns . For more , and still more busy scenes remain ; The promis'd schools of wise artificers In brass and iron . But another school Of gentler arts demands the Muse's song , Where first she learn'd to scan the measur'd verse ...
Contents
The Regicide | 17 |
Poems of Wilkie | 55 |
The Authors Preface to his Epigoniad | 69 |
Copyright | |
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