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Tell me , ye jovial sailors , tell me true , If my sweet William sails among the crew . William , who high upon the yard , Rock'd with the billows to and fro , Soon as her well - known voice he heard , He sigh'd and cast his eyes below ...
Tell me , ye jovial sailors , tell me true , If my sweet William sails among the crew . William , who high upon the yard , Rock'd with the billows to and fro , Soon as her well - known voice he heard , He sigh'd and cast his eyes below ...
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At Corinth next tell o'er the fair , Tell me a whole battalion there . In Greece the faireft nymphs abound , And worse than banner'd armies wound . Count all that make their sweet abodes At Lesbos , or delightful Rhodes .
At Corinth next tell o'er the fair , Tell me a whole battalion there . In Greece the faireft nymphs abound , And worse than banner'd armies wound . Count all that make their sweet abodes At Lesbos , or delightful Rhodes .
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His notions fitted things so well , That which was which he could not tell ; But oftentimes miftook the one l'or th ' other , as great clerks have done . He could reduce all things to acts , And knew their neighbours by abftracts ...
His notions fitted things so well , That which was which he could not tell ; But oftentimes miftook the one l'or th ' other , as great clerks have done . He could reduce all things to acts , And knew their neighbours by abftracts ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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