The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... Pleasures of Imagination On the Winter Solstice , 1740 For a Grotto CHRISTOPHER SMART ( 1722-1770 ) Extracts from A Song to David WILLIAM FALCONER ( 1732-1769 ) • Extract from The Shipwreck . Canto III OLIVER GOLDSMITH ( 1728-1774 ) ...
... Pleasures of Imagination On the Winter Solstice , 1740 For a Grotto CHRISTOPHER SMART ( 1722-1770 ) Extracts from A Song to David WILLIAM FALCONER ( 1732-1769 ) • Extract from The Shipwreck . Canto III OLIVER GOLDSMITH ( 1728-1774 ) ...
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... pleasures in thy presence reign , And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train ; Eas'd of her load , Subjection grows ... pleasure to the day . Thee , goddess , thee Britannia's isle adores : How has she oft exhausted all her stores , How ...
... pleasures in thy presence reign , And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train ; Eas'd of her load , Subjection grows ... pleasure to the day . Thee , goddess , thee Britannia's isle adores : How has she oft exhausted all her stores , How ...
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... not the loss of riches or of fame , Or the vain toys the vulgar pleasures name , ' Tis nothing , Celia , but the losing thee ! THE DESPAIRING LOVER . Distracted with care For Phyllis the 8 THE ENGLISH POETS . To His Book (1691) Sonnet.
... not the loss of riches or of fame , Or the vain toys the vulgar pleasures name , ' Tis nothing , Celia , but the losing thee ! THE DESPAIRING LOVER . Distracted with care For Phyllis the 8 THE ENGLISH POETS . To His Book (1691) Sonnet.
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... pleasures wait , Are styl'd by tuneful bards -- the Fortunate . On high , where no hoarse winds nor clouds resort , The hoodwink'd goddess keeps her partial court : Upon a wheel of amethyst she sits , Gives and resumes , and smiles and ...
... pleasures wait , Are styl'd by tuneful bards -- the Fortunate . On high , where no hoarse winds nor clouds resort , The hoodwink'd goddess keeps her partial court : Upon a wheel of amethyst she sits , Gives and resumes , and smiles and ...
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... pleasure I mix , And in one day atone for the business of six ; In a little Dutch - chaise on a Saturday night , On ... pleasures oppose , In Holland half - drowned in interest and prose ? By Greece and past ages what need I be tried ...
... pleasure I mix , And in one day atone for the business of six ; In a little Dutch - chaise on a Saturday night , On ... pleasures oppose , In Holland half - drowned in interest and prose ? By Greece and past ages what need I be tried ...
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Addison admiration ALLAN RAMSAY Ambrose Philips beauty beneath blest born breast breath Burns Castle of Indolence charm Chatterton critics dear death delight Dryden Dunciad e'er Eclogues English English poetry Epistle Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate feel fool frae genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY grace Gratius Faliscus grave Gray Grongar Hill hand happy hear heart heaven kings labour literary live Lord Lord Hervey mind moral muse nature ne'er never night numbers o'er once pain passion perhaps Pindaric pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise pride prose rhyme rise round satire sense shade shine sing smile song soul spirit Spleen sweet Swift taste tear tell thee things THOMAS TICKELL Thomson thou thought thro toil trembling truth Twas verse virtue Whig wind wise write youth