The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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Page 59
... pow'r to make love groan : To say they err , I dare not be so bold , Although I swear it to myself alone . And , to be sure that is not false I swear , A thousand groans , but thinking on thy face , One on another's neck , do witness ...
... pow'r to make love groan : To say they err , I dare not be so bold , Although I swear it to myself alone . And , to be sure that is not false I swear , A thousand groans , but thinking on thy face , One on another's neck , do witness ...
Page 80
... pow'r : move ; [ streams , The sacred spring , whence right and honour Distilling virtue , shedding peace and love , In every place , as Cynthia sheds her beams : I offer up some sparkles of that fire , Whereby we reason , live , and ...
... pow'r : move ; [ streams , The sacred spring , whence right and honour Distilling virtue , shedding peace and love , In every place , as Cynthia sheds her beams : I offer up some sparkles of that fire , Whereby we reason , live , and ...
Page 83
... pow'r , which gave me eyes the world to view , To view myself , infus'd an inward light , Whereby my soul , as by a mirror true , Of her own form may take a perfect sight . But as the sharpest eye discerneth nought , Except the sun ...
... pow'r , which gave me eyes the world to view , To view myself , infus'd an inward light , Whereby my soul , as by a mirror true , Of her own form may take a perfect sight . But as the sharpest eye discerneth nought , Except the sun ...
Page 84
... pow'r of sight : So , though these fruits of sense her objects be , Yet she discerns them by her proper light . The workman on his stuff his skill doth show , And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill : Kings their affairs do by ...
... pow'r of sight : So , though these fruits of sense her objects be , Yet she discerns them by her proper light . The workman on his stuff his skill doth show , And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill : Kings their affairs do by ...
Page 85
... pow'r was that , whereby Medea saw , And well approv'd , and prais'd the better course ; When her rebellious sense did so withdraw Her feeble pow'rs , that she pursy'd the worse ? Did sense persuade Ulysses not to hear The mermaid's ...
... pow'r was that , whereby Medea saw , And well approv'd , and prais'd the better course ; When her rebellious sense did so withdraw Her feeble pow'rs , that she pursy'd the worse ? Did sense persuade Ulysses not to hear The mermaid's ...
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