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 193
... round about him threw forth fparkling fire , That feemed him to enflame on every fide : His fteed was bloody red , and fomed ire , When with the maistring fpur he did him roughly stire . Approaching nigh , he never ftaid to greet , Ne ...
... round about him threw forth fparkling fire , That feemed him to enflame on every fide : His fteed was bloody red , and fomed ire , When with the maistring fpur he did him roughly stire . Approaching nigh , he never ftaid to greet , Ne ...
Page 345
... round her do dwell , She's faireft where thoufands are fair . Say , charmer , where do thy flocks ftray ? Oh ! tell me at noon where they feed : Shall I feek them on fweet winding Tay , Or the pleasanter banks of the Tweed ? $ 97 . Song ...
... round her do dwell , She's faireft where thoufands are fair . Say , charmer , where do thy flocks ftray ? Oh ! tell me at noon where they feed : Shall I feek them on fweet winding Tay , Or the pleasanter banks of the Tweed ? $ 97 . Song ...
Page 352
... ROUND TABLE , ( fo called by " reafon that the place wherein they prac- " tifed thofe feats was environed with a ftrong " wall made in a round form :) And upon " the fourth day , the golden lion , in fign of " triumph , being yielded to ...
... ROUND TABLE , ( fo called by " reafon that the place wherein they prac- " tifed thofe feats was environed with a ftrong " wall made in a round form :) And upon " the fourth day , the golden lion , in fign of " triumph , being yielded to ...
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