The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred PoetrySelected poetry by Milton, Pope, Watts, Goldsmith, Shakespeare, and others (identified at the beginnng of each selection). |
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... e'er ye die , ye flow'rs ! Short is your date of life , and fhort is ours . Let's print each hour with pleasure , e'er it pass , Leave monuments of joy in every place , That may our revellings and us furvive , Shew we once were , and ...
... e'er ye die , ye flow'rs ! Short is your date of life , and fhort is ours . Let's print each hour with pleasure , e'er it pass , Leave monuments of joy in every place , That may our revellings and us furvive , Shew we once were , and ...
Page 43
... E'er taught to fhine , or sanctified from shame ; . What greater blifs attends the clofe of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife , The trophy'd arches , ftory'd halls invade ,. And haunt their flumbers in the pompous fhade ...
... E'er taught to fhine , or sanctified from shame ; . What greater blifs attends the clofe of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife , The trophy'd arches , ftory'd halls invade ,. And haunt their flumbers in the pompous fhade ...
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Without fatiety , though e'er so blest , And but more relish'd as the more distress'd ; The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears , Lefs pleafing far than virtue's very tears . Good , from each object , from each place acquir'd , For ...
Without fatiety , though e'er so blest , And but more relish'd as the more distress'd ; The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears , Lefs pleafing far than virtue's very tears . Good , from each object , from each place acquir'd , For ...
Page 53
... e'er he pafs'd , with much ado He guefs'd and fpell'd out , Sci - pi - o .. " Enough , he cry'd ; I'll drudge no more , " In turning the dull Stoics o'er : " Let pedants waste their hours of ease " To F3 BEAUTIES OF THE POETS . 53 The ...
... e'er he pafs'd , with much ado He guefs'd and fpell'd out , Sci - pi - o .. " Enough , he cry'd ; I'll drudge no more , " In turning the dull Stoics o'er : " Let pedants waste their hours of ease " To F3 BEAUTIES OF THE POETS . 53 The ...
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... e'er yet of old began , Or ftars to shine , or seasons to return ; E're fang creation , or its fons were born . Lord over all ! Himself his first regard ; And whom to worship is its own reward . The creatures honour and their high ...
... e'er yet of old began , Or ftars to shine , or seasons to return ; E're fang creation , or its fons were born . Lord over all ! Himself his first regard ; And whom to worship is its own reward . The creatures honour and their high ...
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