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Tis the pleasing remembrance of youth , T'he endearments that youth did bestow , The thoughts of past pleasure and truth , The bełt of all bleflings below . Those traces for ever will last , Nor sickness , nor time can remove , For when ...
Tis the pleasing remembrance of youth , T'he endearments that youth did bestow , The thoughts of past pleasure and truth , The bełt of all bleflings below . Those traces for ever will last , Nor sickness , nor time can remove , For when ...
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Nor are these all the advantages that might result from a well - regulated Drama ; for in the Theatre our youth would learn an elegant taste , a juft and graceful deportment and behaviour , and a proper and forcible elocution and ...
Nor are these all the advantages that might result from a well - regulated Drama ; for in the Theatre our youth would learn an elegant taste , a juft and graceful deportment and behaviour , and a proper and forcible elocution and ...
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While yet he spoke , her looks the youth confound , And the black fiend in all her terrors frown'd . Aghaft , he shook , and trembled with affright , While all her native horrors blaft his sight . Such a tremendous front the fury spread ...
While yet he spoke , her looks the youth confound , And the black fiend in all her terrors frown'd . Aghaft , he shook , and trembled with affright , While all her native horrors blaft his sight . Such a tremendous front the fury spread ...
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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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