The Works: In Verse and Prose, of Dr. Thomas Parnell, ... Enlarged with Variations and Poems, Not Before Publish'dRobert & Andrew Foulis, 1767 - 232 pages |
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... fate , Perhaps forgets that OXFORD e'er was great ; Or deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure if ought below the feats divine Can touch immortals , ' tis a foul like thine : A foul ...
... fate , Perhaps forgets that OXFORD e'er was great ; Or deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure if ought below the feats divine Can touch immortals , ' tis a foul like thine : A foul ...
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... Fates explore , Then fix the loom , their fingers nimbly weave , And thus their toil prophetic fongs deceive . Flow from the rock , my flax ! and swiftly flow , Purfue thy thread ; the fpindle runs below . A creature fond and changing ...
... Fates explore , Then fix the loom , their fingers nimbly weave , And thus their toil prophetic fongs deceive . Flow from the rock , my flax ! and swiftly flow , Purfue thy thread ; the fpindle runs below . A creature fond and changing ...
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... fate , Tho ' when it happen'd , no relation clears , ' Tis thought , in five , or five and twenty years . Where , dark and filent , with a twisted shade The neighb'ring woods a native arbour made , There oft a tender pair for am'rous ...
... fate , Tho ' when it happen'd , no relation clears , ' Tis thought , in five , or five and twenty years . Where , dark and filent , with a twisted shade The neighb'ring woods a native arbour made , There oft a tender pair for am'rous ...
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... " Unlov'd , unloving , ' twas his fate to bleed ; " Without his quiver Cupid caus'd the deed : " He judg'd this turn of malice justly due , " And Hefiod dy'd for joys he never knew . ” S ON G. WHEN HEN thy beauty appears , In POEMS ON.
... " Unlov'd , unloving , ' twas his fate to bleed ; " Without his quiver Cupid caus'd the deed : " He judg'd this turn of malice justly due , " And Hefiod dy'd for joys he never knew . ” S ON G. WHEN HEN thy beauty appears , In POEMS ON.
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... what the fav'rite fools of chance " By fortune feem'd defign'd ; • Virtue can gain the odds of fate , And from itself shake off the weight ' Upon th'unworthy Mind . THE VIGIL OF VENUS . WRITTEN IN THE TIME OF 28 POEMS ON.
... what the fav'rite fools of chance " By fortune feem'd defign'd ; • Virtue can gain the odds of fate , And from itself shake off the weight ' Upon th'unworthy Mind . THE VIGIL OF VENUS . WRITTEN IN THE TIME OF 28 POEMS ON.
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