The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 9Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... voice , Muft laugh at her capricious choice , Cadenus many things had writ : Vaneffa much efteem'd his wit , And call'd for his poetic works : Meantime the boy in fecret lurks ; And , while the book was in her hand , The urchin from his ...
... voice , Muft laugh at her capricious choice , Cadenus many things had writ : Vaneffa much efteem'd his wit , And call'd for his poetic works : Meantime the boy in fecret lurks ; And , while the book was in her hand , The urchin from his ...
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... voice ; Both are welcome , grief or joy , I with either fport or toy . Though a lady , I am stout , Drums and trumpets bring me out : Then I clash , and roar , and rattle , Join in all the din of battle . Jove , with all his loudeft ...
... voice ; Both are welcome , grief or joy , I with either fport or toy . Though a lady , I am stout , Drums and trumpets bring me out : Then I clash , and roar , and rattle , Join in all the din of battle . Jove , with all his loudeft ...
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... voice ; I ne'er was born , nor e'er can die ; Then prythee tell me what am 1 . XVII . MOST things by me do rife and fall , And as I please they're great and small ; Invading foes , without refiftance , With eafe I make to keep their ...
... voice ; I ne'er was born , nor e'er can die ; Then prythee tell me what am 1 . XVII . MOST things by me do rife and fall , And as I please they're great and small ; Invading foes , without refiftance , With eafe I make to keep their ...
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... voice , With what impatience they rejoice ! And then they value not two ftraws , How Solomon decides the cause , Which the true mother , which pretender ; Nor liften to the witch of Endor . Should Fauftus , with the Devil behind him ...
... voice , With what impatience they rejoice ! And then they value not two ftraws , How Solomon decides the cause , Which the true mother , which pretender ; Nor liften to the witch of Endor . Should Fauftus , with the Devil behind him ...
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... voice and wisdom long rever'd , Ehe'd by all the wife and good , The guardian genius of the wood : hkag in difcontent retir'd , Yet not obfcur'd , but more admir'd ; His brethren's fervile fouls difdaining , He liv'd indignant and ...
... voice and wisdom long rever'd , Ehe'd by all the wife and good , The guardian genius of the wood : hkag in difcontent retir'd , Yet not obfcur'd , but more admir'd ; His brethren's fervile fouls difdaining , He liv'd indignant and ...
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