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Page 51
Thofe traces for ever will last , Nor fickness , nor time can remove , For when youth and beauty are past , And age brings the winter of love , A friendship infenfibly grows By reviews of fuch raptures as these , And a current of ...
Thofe traces for ever will last , Nor fickness , nor time can remove , For when youth and beauty are past , And age brings the winter of love , A friendship infenfibly grows By reviews of fuch raptures as these , And a current of ...
Page 197
Some greater Greek let thofe high nuptials grace , I hate alliance with a tyrant's race . If heav'n restore me to my realms with life , The rev'rend Peleus shall elect my wife ; Theffalian nymphs there are , of form divine , And kings ...
Some greater Greek let thofe high nuptials grace , I hate alliance with a tyrant's race . If heav'n restore me to my realms with life , The rev'rend Peleus shall elect my wife ; Theffalian nymphs there are , of form divine , And kings ...
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... obtain little benefit : All he can expect is to contract a licentious behaviour , or to become a good buffoon ; whereas , he who diftinctly and frequently notes and imitates thofe amiable characters who win mankind by their virtue ...
... obtain little benefit : All he can expect is to contract a licentious behaviour , or to become a good buffoon ; whereas , he who diftinctly and frequently notes and imitates thofe amiable characters who win mankind by their virtue ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2 The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, John Newbery 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, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029955, 9780576029957 |
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