The Poetical Preceptor: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry; Extracted from the Works of the Most Eminent English Poets. ... And Calculated for the Use, Not Only of Schools, But of Private GentlemenPrinted only for S. Crowder, 1780 - 344 pages |
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... bright , Renew their courfes every night ? #liquodT oko brà Doth not the ox . obedient bownbroly aid and His patient neck , and draw the plough ? Or when , did e'er the generous fteed Withhold his labour or his fpeed ? If you all ...
... bright , Renew their courfes every night ? #liquodT oko brà Doth not the ox . obedient bownbroly aid and His patient neck , and draw the plough ? Or when , did e'er the generous fteed Withhold his labour or his fpeed ? If you all ...
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... bright - hair'd fun , with warmth benign , Bids tree and fhrub , and fwelling vine , Their infant buds difplay : Again the ftreams refresh the plains , Which winter bound in icy chains , And fparkling bless his ray . Life - giving ...
... bright - hair'd fun , with warmth benign , Bids tree and fhrub , and fwelling vine , Their infant buds difplay : Again the ftreams refresh the plains , Which winter bound in icy chains , And fparkling bless his ray . Life - giving ...
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... bright Phoebus gains , And level rays cleave wide the thirty plains , When heifers feek the shade and cooling lake , And in the middle path - way bafks the fnake ; O lead me , guard me from the fultry hours , Hide me , ye forefts , in ...
... bright Phoebus gains , And level rays cleave wide the thirty plains , When heifers feek the shade and cooling lake , And in the middle path - way bafks the fnake ; O lead me , guard me from the fultry hours , Hide me , ye forefts , in ...
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... bright and great Metropolis above . III . Here nature does a houfe for me erect ; Nature the wifeft architect , Who those fond artifts does defpife That can the fair and living trees neglect , Yet the dead timber prize . IV . Here , let ...
... bright and great Metropolis above . III . Here nature does a houfe for me erect ; Nature the wifeft architect , Who those fond artifts does defpife That can the fair and living trees neglect , Yet the dead timber prize . IV . Here , let ...
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... bright And noble fires beget ... XI . Whilft this hard truth I teach , methinks , I fee The monfter London laugh at me ; I fhould at thee too , foolish city ; If it were fit to laugh at mifery ; But thy eftate I pity .. XII . go , Let ...
... bright And noble fires beget ... XI . Whilft this hard truth I teach , methinks , I fee The monfter London laugh at me ; I fhould at thee too , foolish city ; If it were fit to laugh at mifery ; But thy eftate I pity .. XII . go , Let ...
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