The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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... fweet founds , Is fit for treafon , ftratagems and fpoils ; The motions of his fpirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no fuch man be trufted . SHAKESPEARE's Merchant of Venice , natural love of the grand ...
... fweet founds , Is fit for treafon , ftratagems and fpoils ; The motions of his fpirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no fuch man be trufted . SHAKESPEARE's Merchant of Venice , natural love of the grand ...
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... fweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild : then filent night With this her folemn bird , and this fair moon , And these the gems of heaven , her ftarry train . But neither breath of morn , when the afcends With charm of earliest ...
... fweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild : then filent night With this her folemn bird , and this fair moon , And these the gems of heaven , her ftarry train . But neither breath of morn , when the afcends With charm of earliest ...
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... fweet . Such whifp'ring wak'd her , but with startled eye On Adam , whom embracing , thus fhe spoke- O fole , in whom my thoughts find all repofe , My glory , my perfection , glad I fee Thy face , and morn return'd- ; The paffage ...
... fweet . Such whifp'ring wak'd her , but with startled eye On Adam , whom embracing , thus fhe spoke- O fole , in whom my thoughts find all repofe , My glory , my perfection , glad I fee Thy face , and morn return'd- ; The paffage ...
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... fweet remorfe And pious awe , that fear'd to have offended . In that part of the Episode where Adam relates to the an- gel the circumstances he found himself in upon his creation , the author has raised our curiofity , and he has ...
... fweet remorfe And pious awe , that fear'd to have offended . In that part of the Episode where Adam relates to the an- gel the circumstances he found himself in upon his creation , the author has raised our curiofity , and he has ...
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... fweet ; from thee How fhall I part , and whither wander down Into a lower world , to this obscure And wild how fhall we breathe in other air Lefs pure , accuftom'd to immortal fruits ? The speech which Adam makes upon the fame occafion ...
... fweet ; from thee How fhall I part , and whither wander down Into a lower world , to this obscure And wild how fhall we breathe in other air Lefs pure , accuftom'd to immortal fruits ? The speech which Adam makes upon the fame occafion ...
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