Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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... Beauty . My beauty , tho ' but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praife : Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Nor utter'd by false fale of chapmen's tongues . A Wit . In Normandy faw I this Longaville , A man of ...
... Beauty . My beauty , tho ' but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praife : Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Nor utter'd by false fale of chapmen's tongues . A Wit . In Normandy faw I this Longaville , A man of ...
Page 311
... beauty's book , Character'd with clandeftine fire . Then a full fhower of pearly dew , Upon her fnowy breaft ' gan fall , As in due homage to betrew , Or mourn her beauty's funeral . Spare , Laura , fpare thofe beauty's twins , Do not ...
... beauty's book , Character'd with clandeftine fire . Then a full fhower of pearly dew , Upon her fnowy breaft ' gan fall , As in due homage to betrew , Or mourn her beauty's funeral . Spare , Laura , fpare thofe beauty's twins , Do not ...
Page 314
... beauty blow , Or tafte of heaven , and die . Sweet carneft of the blooming year , Whofe dawning beauties fpeak The budding blush of summer near , The fummer on her cheek . Beft emblem of the maid I love , Refembling beauty's morn , To ...
... beauty blow , Or tafte of heaven , and die . Sweet carneft of the blooming year , Whofe dawning beauties fpeak The budding blush of summer near , The fummer on her cheek . Beft emblem of the maid I love , Refembling beauty's morn , To ...
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