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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... feel a tyrant reign . What havock now fhall thin our race , When ev'ry petty clerk in place , To prove his tafte , and feem polite , Will feed on Geefe both noon and night ! The SHEPHERD'S DOG and the WOLF . A A FABLE . [ GAY . ] Wolf ...
... feel a tyrant reign . What havock now fhall thin our race , When ev'ry petty clerk in place , To prove his tafte , and feem polite , Will feed on Geefe both noon and night ! The SHEPHERD'S DOG and the WOLF . A A FABLE . [ GAY . ] Wolf ...
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... feels no joy , his cares increafe , He neither wakes nor fleeps in peace ; In fancy'd want ( a wretch compleat ) He ftarves and yet he dares not eat . The next to fudden honours grew : The thriving art of courts he knew : He reach'd the ...
... feels no joy , his cares increafe , He neither wakes nor fleeps in peace ; In fancy'd want ( a wretch compleat ) He ftarves and yet he dares not eat . The next to fudden honours grew : The thriving art of courts he knew : He reach'd the ...
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... feel the want on't with regret ; A pris'ner to a cage confin'd , Tho ' wing'd and of the flying kind . With you the cafe is not the fame , You're quite terreftrial by your frame , And fhould be perfectly content With your peculiar ...
... feel the want on't with regret ; A pris'ner to a cage confin'd , Tho ' wing'd and of the flying kind . With you the cafe is not the fame , You're quite terreftrial by your frame , And fhould be perfectly content With your peculiar ...
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... feels the spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy ftagnates in her veins ; She never lofes life in thoughtless eafe , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease : Her home - fpun drefs in fimple neatnefs lies , And for no glaring equipage ...
... feels the spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy ftagnates in her veins ; She never lofes life in thoughtless eafe , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease : Her home - fpun drefs in fimple neatnefs lies , And for no glaring equipage ...
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... feel th ' approaching froft , And drops fupply the place of spirits loft : Ye ' fquires , who rack'd with gouts , at heav'n repine , Condemn'd to water for excefs in wine : Ye portly cits , fo corpulent and full , Who eat and drink ...
... feel th ' approaching froft , And drops fupply the place of spirits loft : Ye ' fquires , who rack'd with gouts , at heav'n repine , Condemn'd to water for excefs in wine : Ye portly cits , fo corpulent and full , Who eat and drink ...
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bafe beft beneath bleffing bleft blifs bofom breaft breath charms Dæmons delight dreft earth erft Eurydice Ev'n ev'ry facred fafe faid fair fame fate fcene fecret feek feem feen fenfe fhade fhall fhape fhine fhould fide fight filent fing firft fkies flain fleep flow'rs fmile foar foft folemn fome fong fool foon foul fpirit fpread fpring ftand ftate ftill ftrain ftream ftrong fuch fwain fweet fwell guife happy heart heav'n himſelf honour juft laft lefs loft lyre mind moft mufe mufic muft nature nature's ne'er night nymphs o'er paffion pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe pride profpect purfue reafon reft rife rofe round SHAKESPEARE thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro toil Twas virtue whofe wife wind wings worfe youth