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... shew their youthful green , With intermingling Beds of Flowers between . Charm'd with the Beauties of the blooming Spring , Thus the rapt Shepherd taught his Mufe to fing O , charm- O , charming Seafon ! hail , propitious Year ! 2 SPRING ..
... shew their youthful green , With intermingling Beds of Flowers between . Charm'd with the Beauties of the blooming Spring , Thus the rapt Shepherd taught his Mufe to fing O , charm- O , charming Seafon ! hail , propitious Year ! 2 SPRING ..
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Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects Isaac Thompson. O , charming Seafon ! hail , propitious Year ! Kind to the Swain , and profp'rous to his Care . No parching Drought diminishes the Stream , Or Rains exceffive , o'er the Meadows fwim ...
Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects Isaac Thompson. O , charming Seafon ! hail , propitious Year ! Kind to the Swain , and profp'rous to his Care . No parching Drought diminishes the Stream , Or Rains exceffive , o'er the Meadows fwim ...
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... upon the Skies , Say , is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce ? Does not the Seafon all thofe Pleasures bring ? And Heav'n , indulgent Heaven ! fend you Spring ? SCREEN'D B 2 SCREEN'D in thefe Shades , O ever let me stay SPRING . ท 5.
... upon the Skies , Say , is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce ? Does not the Seafon all thofe Pleasures bring ? And Heav'n , indulgent Heaven ! fend you Spring ? SCREEN'D B 2 SCREEN'D in thefe Shades , O ever let me stay SPRING . ท 5.
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... Seafon , and renew the Spring : But Blowfabella will no more return , And Thyrfis must an endless Winter mourn . ALAS ! to Hills and Mountains I complain ; Yet not to Hills and Mountains , all in vain ; Tho ' thefe are Senfelefs , they ...
... Seafon , and renew the Spring : But Blowfabella will no more return , And Thyrfis must an endless Winter mourn . ALAS ! to Hills and Mountains I complain ; Yet not to Hills and Mountains , all in vain ; Tho ' thefe are Senfelefs , they ...
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... fo far away ! [ Bow'r ; Come near , my Love ! if CELIA's Charms Have Pow'r to call thee to her Arms . The Seafon calls us to improve Each happy Hour , in Blifs and Love ; For · For ev'ry Scene that charms the Sight , Is but 80 ...
... fo far away ! [ Bow'r ; Come near , my Love ! if CELIA's Charms Have Pow'r to call thee to her Arms . The Seafon calls us to improve Each happy Hour , in Blifs and Love ; For · For ev'ry Scene that charms the Sight , Is but 80 ...
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Page viii - ... wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low numbers short excursions tries: Content, if hence, th...
Page 129 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Page vi - Ten cenfure wrong, for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himfelf alone expofe, Now one in verfe makes many more in profe. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go juft alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 154 - Flocks, fecms to be the firft Employment of Mankind, the moft antient Sort of Poetry, was probably Paftoral : 'Tis natural to imagine, that the Leifure of thofe antient Shepherds requiring fome Diverfion, none was fo proper to that folitary Life, as finging, and that in their Songs, they took Occafion...
Page 101 - No doleful fighs in airy circles rove, But all be rapture, blifs, and joy and love ; Without a ruffle, ev'ry moment flow, More gentle than the fofteft breezes blow.
Page xv - Rofes in Hedges, King-cups on the green, Birds in the Woods, and Larks upon the Skies, Say, is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce?
Page 33 - Swell'd to my Eyes, and melted out in Tears; " My trembling Limbs could fcarce my Weight fuftain, " And Life furpriz'd, ftood paufing with the Pain.
Page 30 - Place for Contemplation, or for Care, To lift the Soul, or pour out fad DeJpair ! And And here lay Cc///'», haplefs Swain!
Page vii - One moral, or a meer well-natur'd Deed Does all Defert in Sciences exceed. Moreover, I can ajjure all my Readers, 'who are not of my Acquaintance, that I am not extravagant...