Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 pages |
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... vain , dear Chloe , you fuggeft 126 247 119 218 270 In vain , fond youth , thy tears give o'er In vain you tell your parting lover I tell thee , Charmion , could I time retrieve It is not , Celia , in our power It was a Friar of orders ...
... vain , dear Chloe , you fuggeft 126 247 119 218 270 In vain , fond youth , thy tears give o'er In vain you tell your parting lover I tell thee , Charmion , could I time retrieve It is not , Celia , in our power It was a Friar of orders ...
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... VAIN WA What ! put off with one denial AIN are the charms of white and red 238 AFT me some soft and cooling breeze What beauties does Flora disclose 138 79 222 When all was wrapt in dark midnight 59 When charming Tęraminta fings ' When ...
... VAIN WA What ! put off with one denial AIN are the charms of white and red 238 AFT me some soft and cooling breeze What beauties does Flora disclose 138 79 222 When all was wrapt in dark midnight 59 When charming Tęraminta fings ' When ...
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... vain forrow rive thy heart , Nor tears bedew thy cheek . O do not , do not , holy friar , My forrow now reprove ; For I have loft the sweetest youth , That e'er won Lady's love . And now , alas ! for thy fad lofs I'll evermore weep and ...
... vain forrow rive thy heart , Nor tears bedew thy cheek . O do not , do not , holy friar , My forrow now reprove ; For I have loft the sweetest youth , That e'er won Lady's love . And now , alas ! for thy fad lofs I'll evermore weep and ...
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... vain : For , violets pluck'd the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again . Our joys as winged dreams do fly , Why then should forrow last ? Since grief but aggravates thy lofs , Grieve not for what is past . O fay not fo , thou holy ...
... vain : For , violets pluck'd the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again . Our joys as winged dreams do fly , Why then should forrow last ? Since grief but aggravates thy lofs , Grieve not for what is past . O fay not fo , thou holy ...
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... vain ; And while his paffion touch'd my heart , I triumph'd in his pain . Till quite dejected with my fcorn , He left me to my pride ; And fought a folitude forlorn , In fecret where he died .. D. 3 But But mine the forrow , mine the ...
... vain ; And while his paffion touch'd my heart , I triumph'd in his pain . Till quite dejected with my fcorn , He left me to my pride ; And fought a folitude forlorn , In fecret where he died .. D. 3 But But mine the forrow , mine the ...
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Anacreon antient ballad beauty becauſe bleffing bleft bofom breaſt CELIA charms CHLOE circumftance compariſon compofition cruel dear defire deſcription deſpair eaſe Engliſh epigram expreffion eyes fair fancy fatire feek feem fentiment fhade fhall fhepherd fhould figh fimple fimplicity fince fing firſt fmiles foft fome fond fong fong-writing forrows foul ftill fubject fuch furprize fwain fweet gentle give grace heart itſelf kind know my love laſt lefs lover Lyric Lyric poetry maid meaſure moft moſt mufic muft muſt nature ne'er nymph o'er paffion paftoral pain paſt PHYLLIS pieces pity pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poetical poetry praiſe purpoſe racter reft Sappho ſcene ſhall ſhe SOAME JENYNS ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtay ſtill ſtrain ſwain ſweet taſte tears tell tender thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro tivation treaſure Twas uſed vows whofe Whoſe wiſh youth