The Works of the British Poets: Selected and Chronologically Arranged from Ben Johnson to Beattie. With Biographical and Critical Notices, Volume 1D. Appleton & Company, 1866 - English poetry |
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... Spleen . An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert .... 310 Jackson . On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers 317 The Seeker ... • ib . A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon . Charles Lord Halifax , in the year 1701 ... 232 The Campaign . A Poem .. 234 ...
... Spleen . An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert .... 310 Jackson . On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers 317 The Seeker ... • ib . A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon . Charles Lord Halifax , in the year 1701 ... 232 The Campaign . A Poem .. 234 ...
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... spleen or vapors meant . Of wine she never tasted through the year , But white and black was all her homely cheer : Brown bread , and milk , ( but first she skimm'd her bowls ) vain , To wish their vile resemblance may remain ! And ...
... spleen or vapors meant . Of wine she never tasted through the year , But white and black was all her homely cheer : Brown bread , and milk , ( but first she skimm'd her bowls ) vain , To wish their vile resemblance may remain ! And ...
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... spleen to cure its own . Those sacred Virgins whom the bards revere Tun'd all her voice , and shed a sweetness there , To make her sense with double charms abound , Or make her lively nonsense please by sound . To dress the maid , the ...
... spleen to cure its own . Those sacred Virgins whom the bards revere Tun'd all her voice , and shed a sweetness there , To make her sense with double charms abound , Or make her lively nonsense please by sound . To dress the maid , the ...
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... spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home - spun dress in simple neatness lies , And for no glaring equipage she sighs ...
... spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home - spun dress in simple neatness lies , And for no glaring equipage she sighs ...
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... Spleen . " He passed his read when young , he did not forget . The austerity life in celibacy , and died in 1737 , at the early age in which he was educated had the effect of inspiring of forty - one , in lodgings in Gracechurch ...
... Spleen . " He passed his read when young , he did not forget . The austerity life in celibacy , and died in 1737 , at the early age in which he was educated had the effect of inspiring of forty - one , in lodgings in Gracechurch ...
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Adam Anacreon angels appear'd arm'd arms beast behold bliss bright call'd cherub cherubim clouds Comus coursers Dagon dark death deep delight divine dread Earth eternal evil eyes fair fame fate father fear fire fix'd flame fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hath head heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill honor hope Israel join'd king light live Lord Lubberkin Lycidas Messiah mighty mind mortal Muse night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain Paradise pass'd peace Philistines plain pleas'd praise quire rage rais'd reign return'd rise round Satan seat seem'd shade shalt sight Son of God song soon soul spake spirits Spleen stood sweet taste Thebes thee thence Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd Twas vex'd Virg virtue voice whence winds wings wonder