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... and their energy . Go on , bright youths , the God is all your own , Restore lost
relish , and reform the town : Let us no more a vicious taste pursue , Wit Mall
again its glorious reign renew , Adorn'd by your Apollo's smiles , improv'd by you .
... and their energy . Go on , bright youths , the God is all your own , Restore lost
relish , and reform the town : Let us no more a vicious taste pursue , Wit Mall
again its glorious reign renew , Adorn'd by your Apollo's smiles , improv'd by you .
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In bright contracted lines with wit replete , Make Britain's Phæbus shine in every
sheet . Tho ' criticks rail against the glorious SUN , Like barking dogs , they'll yelp
and soon have done , But who shall end , what you've so well begun ? O more ...
In bright contracted lines with wit replete , Make Britain's Phæbus shine in every
sheet . Tho ' criticks rail against the glorious SUN , Like barking dogs , they'll yelp
and soon have done , But who shall end , what you've so well begun ? O more ...
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LL pleasing Ovid in a strain divine , Sings the dear Cyprian Queen , a Goddess
bright , Charming to fenfe , and ravishing to fight . With wounding paffion he
describes her court , Here smiling graces play , there Cupids sport . In numbers
like ...
LL pleasing Ovid in a strain divine , Sings the dear Cyprian Queen , a Goddess
bright , Charming to fenfe , and ravishing to fight . With wounding paffion he
describes her court , Here smiling graces play , there Cupids sport . In numbers
like ...
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T So bright our bliss , so exquisite our joy , The very pleasure would in time
destroy . Thus ' tis in climes wbich feel a mod'rate sun , And those o'er which his
constant glories run : The first are bleft with fertile tracts of land , The last are curs'
d in ...
T So bright our bliss , so exquisite our joy , The very pleasure would in time
destroy . Thus ' tis in climes wbich feel a mod'rate sun , And those o'er which his
constant glories run : The first are bleft with fertile tracts of land , The last are curs'
d in ...
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A Shoud nature faint , and her bright frame give way , Should all this glorious Orb
of light decay , One tear of yours the loss would over - pay . But O ! I burn ; can
tears encrease desire ? Have they the pow'r to cause so bright a fire ? Strange ...
A Shoud nature faint , and her bright frame give way , Should all this glorious Orb
of light decay , One tear of yours the loss would over - pay . But O ! I burn ; can
tears encrease desire ? Have they the pow'r to cause so bright a fire ? Strange ...
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| Title | The British Apollo: Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous, Approved of by Many of the Most Learned and Ingenious of Both Universities, and of the Royal-Society Volume 1 of The British Apollo: In Three Volumes, Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous. Approved of by Many of the Most Learned and Ingenious of Both Universities, and of the Royal Society |
| Illustrated by | J. Clark |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Theodore Sanders, at the Bell in Little Britain, and Sold, 1726 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 May 2007 |
| Length | 1056 pages |
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