A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies of vols. 5,6].1766 |
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... paffion in your face ! Then , foft - divided , you affume The gentle - looking H - d's bloom , As , with her PHILOMELA , fhe , ( Her PHILOMELA fond of thee ) Amid the long withdrawing vale , Awakes the rival'd nightingale . A thousand ...
... paffion in your face ! Then , foft - divided , you affume The gentle - looking H - d's bloom , As , with her PHILOMELA , fhe , ( Her PHILOMELA fond of thee ) Amid the long withdrawing vale , Awakes the rival'd nightingale . A thousand ...
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... paffion leads , or prudence points the way . In the pure mind , at those ambiguous years , Or vice , rank weed , firft ftrikes her pois'nous root ; Or haply virtue's op'ning bud appears By juft degrees ; fair bloom of faireft fruit ...
... paffion leads , or prudence points the way . In the pure mind , at those ambiguous years , Or vice , rank weed , firft ftrikes her pois'nous root ; Or haply virtue's op'ning bud appears By juft degrees ; fair bloom of faireft fruit ...
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... paffions dim her face . As when fair Iris has awhile display'd Her watry arch , with gaudy painture gay ; While yet we gaze , the glorious colours fade , And from our wonder gently steal away : Where fhone the beauteous phantom erst so ...
... paffions dim her face . As when fair Iris has awhile display'd Her watry arch , with gaudy painture gay ; While yet we gaze , the glorious colours fade , And from our wonder gently steal away : Where fhone the beauteous phantom erst so ...
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... paffions ill fuch worthless thing beseem ; Pride , rage , and vanity to banish out , She creeping crawls , and drags a loathfome length about . LI . How Cupid wash'd her noisome filth away ; What arts he tried to win her love again ; By ...
... paffions ill fuch worthless thing beseem ; Pride , rage , and vanity to banish out , She creeping crawls , and drags a loathfome length about . LI . How Cupid wash'd her noisome filth away ; What arts he tried to win her love again ; By ...
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... paffions gave a pleasing zeft ; While thankful man fubmitted to be bleft . Simplicity , was wifdom ; temperance , health : Obedience , pow'r ; and full contentment , wealth . So happy once was man ! ' till the vain elf Shook off his ...
... paffions gave a pleasing zeft ; While thankful man fubmitted to be bleft . Simplicity , was wifdom ; temperance , health : Obedience , pow'r ; and full contentment , wealth . So happy once was man ! ' till the vain elf Shook off his ...
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