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... nature ever com- prehended fuch a number and variety of ex- cellent poems , or was printed with fuperior elegance , fidelity , or correctnefs . No altera- tion ( except in apparent mistakes ) has been attempted either in the language or ...
... nature ever com- prehended fuch a number and variety of ex- cellent poems , or was printed with fuperior elegance , fidelity , or correctnefs . No altera- tion ( except in apparent mistakes ) has been attempted either in the language or ...
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... nature , did'st thou prodigally wafte Thy gifts on me unfortunateft fwain , Only thereby to have thyself disgrac'd ? Virtue , in me why wert thou plac'd in vain ? If to the world predeftined a prey , Thou wert too good to have been cast ...
... nature , did'st thou prodigally wafte Thy gifts on me unfortunateft fwain , Only thereby to have thyself disgrac'd ? Virtue , in me why wert thou plac'd in vain ? If to the world predeftined a prey , Thou wert too good to have been cast ...
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... Natures lays , Thinking your voices understood , By your weak accents , what's your praise When Philomel her voice fhall raife ? You violets , that first appear , By your pure purple mantles known , Like the proud virgins of the year ...
... Natures lays , Thinking your voices understood , By your weak accents , what's your praise When Philomel her voice fhall raife ? You violets , that first appear , By your pure purple mantles known , Like the proud virgins of the year ...
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... nature did lament , 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar , His goary vifage down the ftream was fent , Down the fwift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore . Alas ! what boots it with unceffant care To tend the homely flighted fhepherds ...
... nature did lament , 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar , His goary vifage down the ftream was fent , Down the fwift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore . Alas ! what boots it with unceffant care To tend the homely flighted fhepherds ...
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... Natures hand this ground did thus advance , " Twas guided by a wifer power than Chance ; Mark'd out for fuch a use ... Nature defign'd First a brave place , and then as brave a mind . Not to recount those several kings , to whom 75 It ...
... Natures hand this ground did thus advance , " Twas guided by a wifer power than Chance ; Mark'd out for fuch a use ... Nature defign'd First a brave place , and then as brave a mind . Not to recount those several kings , to whom 75 It ...
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