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 65
... kind and natural ! [ do , But fee thy fault ; France hath in thee found out A neft of hollow bofoms , which he fills With treach'rous crowns . Falfe Appearances . Oh ! how thou haft with jealoufy infected The fweetnels of affiance ...
... kind and natural ! [ do , But fee thy fault ; France hath in thee found out A neft of hollow bofoms , which he fills With treach'rous crowns . Falfe Appearances . Oh ! how thou haft with jealoufy infected The fweetnels of affiance ...
Page 209
... kind , Cattle and creeping things , and beaft of th ' earth , Each in their kind . The earth obey ' d , and ftraight Op'ning her fertile womb teem'd at a birth Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown out of ...
... kind , Cattle and creeping things , and beaft of th ' earth , Each in their kind . The earth obey ' d , and ftraight Op'ning her fertile womb teem'd at a birth Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown out of ...
Page 426
... kind , polite , And pay my duty --- every other night : My dear lov'd rib I never will abandon , And ftand by her , whilft I've one leg to ftand on ! I'll make a folemn contract , play or pay , And hope we shall not part this many a day ...
... kind , polite , And pay my duty --- every other night : My dear lov'd rib I never will abandon , And ftand by her , whilft I've one leg to ftand on ! I'll make a folemn contract , play or pay , And hope we shall not part this many a day ...
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