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... fancy . Why sweeter ? Perhaps partly because truer : fancy , as Collins elsewhere frequently insists , can be a means of insight into the most profound truths , but in this instance the " fancy " that the most significant thing to say ...
... fancy . Why sweeter ? Perhaps partly because truer : fancy , as Collins elsewhere frequently insists , can be a means of insight into the most profound truths , but in this instance the " fancy " that the most significant thing to say ...
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... fancy we can sit To hear his out - of - fashioned wit ? But he takes up with younger folks , Who for his wine will bear his jokes . Faith , he must make his stories shorter , Or change his comrades once a quarter : In half the time , he ...
... fancy we can sit To hear his out - of - fashioned wit ? But he takes up with younger folks , Who for his wine will bear his jokes . Faith , he must make his stories shorter , Or change his comrades once a quarter : In half the time , he ...
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... fancy then Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task , Ah , what shall language do ? Ah , where find words Tinged with so many colors and whose power , 475 To life approaching , may perfume my lays With that fine oil , those aromatic ...
... fancy then Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task , Ah , what shall language do ? Ah , where find words Tinged with so many colors and whose power , 475 To life approaching , may perfume my lays With that fine oil , those aromatic ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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ADORATION auld auld lang syne bard beauty beneath bless breast breath charms Christopher Smart clouds Cowper death delight Dunciad e'er earth eighteenth-century ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers frae golden reign grace hand hear heart heav'n honor hour human J. V. Cunningham John John Gay Jonathan Swift king lasses light Lord lyre maid Matthew Prior mind morn Muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace periphrasis Philip Larkin plain play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pow'r praise pride rise round scene scorn sense shade shine sighs sing skelpin sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit Spring strain stream swain sweet Swift thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse virtue voice walk wild William Cowper wind wing woods youth