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... beauty's field , Thy youth's proud livery , so gazed on now , Will be a tatter'd weed , of small worth held . Of no distemper , of no blast he died , Sh . Rom . v . 1 . But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long , Even wonder'd at ...
... beauty's field , Thy youth's proud livery , so gazed on now , Will be a tatter'd weed , of small worth held . Of no distemper , of no blast he died , Sh . Rom . v . 1 . But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long , Even wonder'd at ...
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... beauty ; And while it is so , none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it . Heat not a furnace for your foc so hot That it do singe yourself : We may outrun , By violent swiftness , that which we run at , And lose ...
... beauty ; And while it is so , none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it . Heat not a furnace for your foc so hot That it do singe yourself : We may outrun , By violent swiftness , that which we run at , And lose ...
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... beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face . Thrice happy time , Best portion of the various year , in which Nature rejoiceth , smiling on her works , Lovely , to full perfection wrought . ' Tis past ! no more the Summer ...
... beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face . Thrice happy time , Best portion of the various year , in which Nature rejoiceth , smiling on her works , Lovely , to full perfection wrought . ' Tis past ! no more the Summer ...
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... beauty's eye , Love half regrets to kiss it dry ; So sweet the blush of bashfulness , E'en pity scarce can wish it less . BAT . [ 347 . Byron , Bride of A. Now air is hush'd , save where the weak - eyed bat , With short , shrill shriek ...
... beauty's eye , Love half regrets to kiss it dry ; So sweet the blush of bashfulness , E'en pity scarce can wish it less . BAT . [ 347 . Byron , Bride of A. Now air is hush'd , save where the weak - eyed bat , With short , shrill shriek ...
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... has no bush below ; Marry a little wool , as much as an unripe Peach doth wear : Dryden . Sh . Troil . 1. 2 . Just enough to speak him drawing towards a man . Suckling , Goblins , BEARD - continued . BEARD - BEAUTY . His tawny.
... has no bush below ; Marry a little wool , as much as an unripe Peach doth wear : Dryden . Sh . Troil . 1. 2 . Just enough to speak him drawing towards a man . Suckling , Goblins , BEARD - continued . BEARD - BEAUTY . His tawny.
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Aaron Hill Addison bear beauty Ben Jonson bliss brave breast breath bright Butler Byron charms Churchill clouds Cowper death deeds doth dream Dryden earth Ebenezer Elliott Eliza Cook eyes fair fame fate fear flowers fools fortune Giaour give glory gold Goldsmith grace grave grief happy hast hate hath heart heaven Herrick Honest Man's Fortune honour hope hour Hudibras human Joanna Baillie Johnson king L'Allegro Lalla Rookh light live looks Lord Love's LOVERS Macb man's mankind MARRIAGE Milton mind Moore nature ne'er never night o'er pain passion peace Pindar pleasure Pope praise rich shine sigh smile Sophonisba sorrow soul spirit sweet Tamerlane tears thee There's things Thomson thou art thought tongue Troil truth Twill VIII virtue wind wise words wretch Young youth