The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 51
... youth , The endearments that youth did bestow , The thoughts of past pleasure and truth , The beft of all bleffings below . Thofe traces for ever will last , Nor fickness , nor time can remove , For when youth and beauty are past , And ...
... youth , The endearments that youth did bestow , The thoughts of past pleasure and truth , The beft of all bleffings below . Thofe traces for ever will last , Nor fickness , nor time can remove , For when youth and beauty are past , And ...
Page 150
... youth would learn an elegant tafte , a juft and graceful deport- ment and behaviour , and a proper and forcible elocution and pronunciation , which are no where , that Fknow of ,, fo well cultivated as on the Stage . But to fire youth ...
... youth would learn an elegant tafte , a juft and graceful deport- ment and behaviour , and a proper and forcible elocution and pronunciation , which are no where , that Fknow of ,, fo well cultivated as on the Stage . But to fire youth ...
Page 283
... youth confound , And the black fiend in all her terrors frown'd . Aghaft , he fhook , and trembled with affright , While all her native horrors blaft his fight . Such a tremendous front the fury spread , So dreadful hifs'd the ferpents ...
... youth confound , And the black fiend in all her terrors frown'd . Aghaft , he fhook , and trembled with affright , While all her native horrors blaft his fight . Such a tremendous front the fury spread , So dreadful hifs'd the ferpents ...
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