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... light and gifts Are all but plagiary shifts . No author ever spared a brother ; Wits are gamecocks to one another . Bp.Corbet . Butler , Hudibras . Authors are judg'd by strange capricious rules , Gay , Fable 10 . The great ones are ...
... light and gifts Are all but plagiary shifts . No author ever spared a brother ; Wits are gamecocks to one another . Bp.Corbet . Butler , Hudibras . Authors are judg'd by strange capricious rules , Gay , Fable 10 . The great ones are ...
Page 35
... light clouds ' twixt our gaze and heaven ; The many - twinkling feet so small and sylph - like , Suggesting the more secret symmetry Of the fair forms which terminate so well- All the delusion of the dizzy scene , Its false and true ...
... light clouds ' twixt our gaze and heaven ; The many - twinkling feet so small and sylph - like , Suggesting the more secret symmetry Of the fair forms which terminate so well- All the delusion of the dizzy scene , Its false and true ...
Page 43
... light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . If that be she who yonder pensive comes , She seems some bright inhabitant of heav'n , Shot ...
... light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . If that be she who yonder pensive comes , She seems some bright inhabitant of heav'n , Shot ...
Page 49
... light to every age ; It gives , but borrows none . Byron , Beppo , 27 . Most wondrous book ! bright candle of the Lord ! Star of Eternity ! The only star By which the bark of man can navigate The sea of life , and gain the coast of ...
... light to every age ; It gives , but borrows none . Byron , Beppo , 27 . Most wondrous book ! bright candle of the Lord ! Star of Eternity ! The only star By which the bark of man can navigate The sea of life , and gain the coast of ...
Page 56
... light . In form too I differ , -I'm thick and I'm thin ; I've no flesh and no bone , yet I'm covered with skin ; I've more points than the compass , more stops than the flute ; I sing without voice , without speaking confute ; I'm ...
... light . In form too I differ , -I'm thick and I'm thin ; I've no flesh and no bone , yet I'm covered with skin ; I've more points than the compass , more stops than the flute ; I sing without voice , without speaking confute ; I'm ...
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