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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... Quick as her eyes , and as unfix'd as those ; Favours to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And , like the sun , they shine on all alike . Yet ...
... Quick as her eyes , and as unfix'd as those ; Favours to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And , like the sun , they shine on all alike . Yet ...
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... quick poetic eyes : ( So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew , To Proculus alone confess'd in view ) A sudden star , it shot through liquid air , And drew behind a radiant trail of hair . Not Berenice's locks first rose so ...
... quick poetic eyes : ( So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew , To Proculus alone confess'd in view ) A sudden star , it shot through liquid air , And drew behind a radiant trail of hair . Not Berenice's locks first rose so ...
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... quick fuel from the neighbouring wood , And strike the sparkling flint , and dress the food : With humble duty and officious haste I'll cull the furthest mead for thy repast ; The choicest herbs I to thy board will bring , And draw thy ...
... quick fuel from the neighbouring wood , And strike the sparkling flint , and dress the food : With humble duty and officious haste I'll cull the furthest mead for thy repast ; The choicest herbs I to thy board will bring , And draw thy ...
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... quick maturity of brain The birth of Pallas may explain : Dreaming of whose depending fate , I heard Melpomene debate ; -- " This , this is he , that was foretold Should emulate our Greeks of old , Inspir'd by me with sacred art , He ...
... quick maturity of brain The birth of Pallas may explain : Dreaming of whose depending fate , I heard Melpomene debate ; -- " This , this is he , that was foretold Should emulate our Greeks of old , Inspir'd by me with sacred art , He ...
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... Quick answering from below : " O tell me , father , tell me true , If you have chanc'd to see A gentle maid , I lately left Beneath some neighbouring tree : ' But either I have lost the place , Or she hath gone astray : And much fear ...
... Quick answering from below : " O tell me , father , tell me true , If you have chanc'd to see A gentle maid , I lately left Beneath some neighbouring tree : ' But either I have lost the place , Or she hath gone astray : And much fear ...
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