Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Poets, Volume 6Wells and Lilly, 1826 - English poetry |
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... maids alone and children are reveal'd ; What though no credit doubting wits may give , The fair and innocent shall still believe . Know then , unnumber'd spirits round thee fly , The light militia of the lower sky : These , though ...
... maids alone and children are reveal'd ; What though no credit doubting wits may give , The fair and innocent shall still believe . Know then , unnumber'd spirits round thee fly , The light militia of the lower sky : These , though ...
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... maids , In courtly balls , and midnight masquerades , Safe from the treacherous friend , the daring spark , The glance by day , the whisper in the dark ; When kind occasion prompts their warm desires , When music softens , and when ...
... maids , In courtly balls , and midnight masquerades , Safe from the treacherous friend , the daring spark , The glance by day , the whisper in the dark ; When kind occasion prompts their warm desires , When music softens , and when ...
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... maid but must a victim fall To one man's treat , but for another's ball ! When Florio speaks , what virgin could withstand , If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? With varying vanities , from every part , They shift the moving ...
... maid but must a victim fall To one man's treat , but for another's ball ! When Florio speaks , what virgin could withstand , If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? With varying vanities , from every part , They shift the moving ...
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... maid , Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd ! With store of prayers for mornings , nights , and noons , Her hand is fill'd ; her bosom with lampoons . There Affectation , with a sickly mien , Shows in her cheek the roses of ...
... maid , Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd ! With store of prayers for mornings , nights , and noons , Her hand is fill'd ; her bosom with lampoons . There Affectation , with a sickly mien , Shows in her cheek the roses of ...
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... maids . Now glaring fiends , and snakes on rolling spires , Pale spectres , gaping tombs , and purple fires : Now lakes of liquid gold , Elysian scenes , And crystal domes , and angels in machines . Unnumber'd throngs on every side are ...
... maids . Now glaring fiends , and snakes on rolling spires , Pale spectres , gaping tombs , and purple fires : Now lakes of liquid gold , Elysian scenes , And crystal domes , and angels in machines . Unnumber'd throngs on every side are ...
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