The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8John & Arthur Arch ... and for Bell & Bradfute and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry |
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Page 31
... flame . Love , foft intruder , enters here , But entering learns to be fincere . Marcus with blushes owns he loves , And Brutus tenderly reproves . Why , virtue , doft thou blame defire , Which nature has imprest ? Why , nature , doft ...
... flame . Love , foft intruder , enters here , But entering learns to be fincere . Marcus with blushes owns he loves , And Brutus tenderly reproves . Why , virtue , doft thou blame defire , Which nature has imprest ? Why , nature , doft ...
Page 42
... flame Of all the nurse and all the priest have taught ; 30 Mount up , and take a falamander's name , W Form a ftrong line about the filver bound , And. CANTO I. WHAT dire offence from amorous caufes fprings , What mighty contests rife ...
... flame Of all the nurse and all the priest have taught ; 30 Mount up , and take a falamander's name , W Form a ftrong line about the filver bound , And. CANTO I. WHAT dire offence from amorous caufes fprings , What mighty contests rife ...
Page 51
... flames are borne . Ph - on to Ætna's fcorching fields retires , While I confume with more than Ætna's fires ! No more my ... flame like mine ! Whom would not all thofe blooming charms fur- prife , Those heavenly looks , and dear deluding ...
... flames are borne . Ph - on to Ætna's fcorching fields retires , While I confume with more than Ætna's fires ! No more my ... flame like mine ! Whom would not all thofe blooming charms fur- prife , Those heavenly looks , and dear deluding ...
Page 52
... flames supply'd . Though thert my ftature , yet my name extends To heaven itself , and earth's remoteft ends . Brown as I am , an Ethiopian dame Infpir'd yo ng Perfeus with a generous flame : Turtles and doves of differing hues unite ...
... flames supply'd . Though thert my ftature , yet my name extends To heaven itself , and earth's remoteft ends . Brown as I am , an Ethiopian dame Infpir'd yo ng Perfeus with a generous flame : Turtles and doves of differing hues unite ...
Page 53
... flames extinguish , and forget to love . " Deucalion once with hopclefs fury burn'd , " In vain he lov'd , relentless ... flame expires ; But ah ! how fiercely burn the lover's fires ? Gods ! can no prayers , no fighs , no numbers , move ...
... flames extinguish , and forget to love . " Deucalion once with hopclefs fury burn'd , " In vain he lov'd , relentless ... flame expires ; But ah ! how fiercely burn the lover's fires ? Gods ! can no prayers , no fighs , no numbers , move ...
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