Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 2John Aikin |
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... tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts , Receive the news in doleful dumps : The Dean is dead : ( Pray what is trumps ? ) Then , Lord have mercy on his soul ! ( Ladies , I'll venture for the vole . ) Six deans , they say ...
... tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts , Receive the news in doleful dumps : The Dean is dead : ( Pray what is trumps ? ) Then , Lord have mercy on his soul ! ( Ladies , I'll venture for the vole . ) Six deans , they say ...
Page 671
... tender care , That rack the amorous breast ? Alas ! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain : The heart can ne'er a transport know , That never feels a pain . TO THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST LADY LYTTELTON . A MONODY , Ipse cavĂ ...
... tender care , That rack the amorous breast ? Alas ! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain : The heart can ne'er a transport know , That never feels a pain . TO THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST LADY LYTTELTON . A MONODY , Ipse cavĂ ...
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... tender tubes Melt in the mildest most nectareous tide That ripening Nature rolls ; as in the stream Its crumbling banks ; but what the force Of plastic fluids hourly batters down , That very force , those plastic particles Rebuild so ...
... tender tubes Melt in the mildest most nectareous tide That ripening Nature rolls ; as in the stream Its crumbling banks ; but what the force Of plastic fluids hourly batters down , That very force , those plastic particles Rebuild so ...
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