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" While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again: But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our... "
The Hive: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs ... ... - Page 205
1729
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Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays

John Bell - 1780 - 436 pages
...f« may rile again : ' 4 But But if once we lofe this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why fhould we defer our joys ? Fame and rumour are but toys....Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor houfhold fpies ; Or his eafier ears beguile, Thus removed by our wile ? 'Tis no fin love's fruits to fteal; But the...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1

George Ellis - 1790 - 346 pages
...Suns that fet may rife again; But if once we lofe the light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why fhould we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys ; Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor houfehold fpies ? Or his eafier ears beguile So removed by our wile ? 'Tis no fin love's fruits to...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 912 pages
...not then his gifts in vain. Suns that fet, may rife again : But if once we lofe this light, ' J'is with us perpetual night. Why fhou!d we defer our joys...but toys. Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor houfehold fpies }. Or his'eafier ears beguile, So removed by our wile .' "Tis no fin love's fruit to...
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...Suns that set may rise again ; But if once we lose the light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys ; Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies ? Or his easier ears beguile, So removed by our wile ? 'Tis no sin love's fruits to...
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...Suns may set, may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys ? Fame and rumour are but toys. Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor houshold spies; Or his easier ears beguile, So removed by our wile ? Tis no sin love's fruit to steal,...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...Suns that set may rise again ; But if once we lose the light, Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys ? Fame and rumour are but toys ; Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies? Or his easier ears beguile So removed hy our wile ? Tb DO sin love's fruits to steal;...
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The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: The ..., Volume 1

Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...again : But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys f Fame and rumour are but toys. Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies? Or his easier ears beguile, Thus removed by our wile ? 'Tis no sin love's fruits to...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 3

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 pages
...that set, may rise again ; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys ? Fame and rumour are but toys. Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies ? to the magnificent spectacles which were exhibited for the amusement of Henry III.,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 45

1839 - 894 pages
...that set, may rise again ; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys ? Fame and rumour are but toys, Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies ? Or his easier ears beguile, Thus removed by our wile '— 'Tis no sin love's fruits...
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The songs of England and Scotland

England - 1835 - 794 pages
...that set, may rise again ; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys ? Fame and rumour are but toys. Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies ? Or his easier ears beguile, Thus removed by our wile ? 'Tis no sin love's fruit to...
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