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Preface. A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song ... - Page 63
1783
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Elegies on several occasions. Odes, songs, ballads, &c. Levities; or, Pieces ...

William Shenstone - 1765 - 510 pages
...It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fkklw they be. Alas ! What hope of an end to my woea ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r, and the flirub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have comfort...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 274 pages
...nymphs of an higher degree: It is not for me to explain How fair and how fickle they be. IV. Alasi from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes f When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain: The...
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The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes ...

William Shenstone - 1768 - 346 pages
...an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. 1 Q .71 Alas ! --- What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. Tet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'/, and the fluub, and the tree. Which 1 rear'd for her pleafure...
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The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse ...

1773 - 394 pages
...Arnid nympns of an higher degree: It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. Alas I from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my...forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifli the pain: The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain,...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - 1774 - 328 pages
...woes I endure, Let reafon inftruft you to fhun What it cannot inftruct you to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It...repofe, Yet time may diminifh the pain: The flower, the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have comfort for me....
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - 1774 - 316 pages
...woes I endure, Let reafon inftruft you to fhun What it cannot inftruft you to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It...the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes f When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe, Gz Yet Yet time may diminifh the...
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The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: In ..., Volume 1

William Shenstone - 1777 - 378 pages
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. Alas Alas ! from the day that we met, , What hope of an...undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have comfort for...
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The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone: With Decorations, Volume 1

William Shenstone - 1777 - 348 pages
...vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repoieV Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volumes 53-54

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 702 pages
...cannot inftruft you to cure. Beware Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree i It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle,...that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain i The flower, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have...
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The Works of the English Poets: Shenstone

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 350 pages
...What it cannot inftrufl you to cure. Beware how you loiter in ain Amid nymphs of an higher degree i It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle,...glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain.i The flower, and the fhrub, and the tree. Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may...
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