The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 39-40Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 - English poetry |
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... courts ? Take thy unwonted flight , And on the terrace light . See where the lies ! See how the rears her head , And rolls about her dreadful eyes , To drive all virtue out , or look it dead ! ' Twas fure this bafilifk fent Temple ...
... courts ? Take thy unwonted flight , And on the terrace light . See where the lies ! See how the rears her head , And rolls about her dreadful eyes , To drive all virtue out , or look it dead ! ' Twas fure this bafilifk fent Temple ...
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... gainst her fountain does complain , And foftly steals in many windings down , As loth to fee the hated court and town , And murmurs as she glides away . X. In this new happy scene Are nobler fubjects for X. In SWIFT'S POEMS .
... gainst her fountain does complain , And foftly steals in many windings down , As loth to fee the hated court and town , And murmurs as she glides away . X. In this new happy scene Are nobler fubjects for X. In SWIFT'S POEMS .
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... court ; How that which we a kernel fee ( Whofe well - compacted forms efcape the light , Unpierc'd by the blunt rays of fight ) Shall ere long grow into a tree ; Whence takes it its increase , and whence its birth , Or from the fun , or ...
... court ; How that which we a kernel fee ( Whofe well - compacted forms efcape the light , Unpierc'd by the blunt rays of fight ) Shall ere long grow into a tree ; Whence takes it its increase , and whence its birth , Or from the fun , or ...
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... courts the wanton echoes as they fly . III . Pardon , ye great unknown , and far - exalted men , The wild excurfions of a youthful pen * ; Forgive a young , and ( almoft ) Virgin - Mufe , Whom blind and eager curiofity ( Yet curiofity ...
... courts the wanton echoes as they fly . III . Pardon , ye great unknown , and far - exalted men , The wild excurfions of a youthful pen * ; Forgive a young , and ( almoft ) Virgin - Mufe , Whom blind and eager curiofity ( Yet curiofity ...
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... court her to our arms ! How much of Heaven is in her naked looks ! X. Thus the deluding Mufe oft ' blinds me to her ways , And ev'n my very thoughts transfers And changes all to beauty , and the praise Of that proud tyrant sex of hers ...
... court her to our arms ! How much of Heaven is in her naked looks ! X. Thus the deluding Mufe oft ' blinds me to her ways , And ev'n my very thoughts transfers And changes all to beauty , and the praise Of that proud tyrant sex of hers ...
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