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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Page 173
... fweet gumes did drop , That all the ground with protious dew bedight , Threw forth most dainty odours , and mest fweet delight . And , in the thicket covert in that shade , There was a pleafant arbour , not by art , But of the trees own ...
... fweet gumes did drop , That all the ground with protious dew bedight , Threw forth most dainty odours , and mest fweet delight . And , in the thicket covert in that shade , There was a pleafant arbour , not by art , But of the trees own ...
Page 176
... fweet fpirit and wholefome finell . 1 More fweet and whole fome than the pleafant hill Of Rhodope , on which the nymph that bore A giant - babe , her felfe for griefe did kill ; Or the Theffalian Tempe , where of yore Faire Daphne ...
... fweet fpirit and wholefome finell . 1 More fweet and whole fome than the pleafant hill Of Rhodope , on which the nymph that bore A giant - babe , her felfe for griefe did kill ; Or the Theffalian Tempe , where of yore Faire Daphne ...
Page 376
... fweet ? as fweet , as fweet flows Tweed , As green its grafs , its gowan as yellow , As fweet finells on its braes the birk , The apple frae its rock as mellow . Fair was thy luve , fair fair indeed thy luve , In flow'ry bands thou ...
... fweet ? as fweet , as fweet flows Tweed , As green its grafs , its gowan as yellow , As fweet finells on its braes the birk , The apple frae its rock as mellow . Fair was thy luve , fair fair indeed thy luve , In flow'ry bands thou ...
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