Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks |
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... wish his laurels cropped ? Dear honest Ned is in the gout , Lies racked with pain , and you without : How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brethren write as well as ...
... wish his laurels cropped ? Dear honest Ned is in the gout , Lies racked with pain , and you without : How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brethren write as well as ...
Page 311
... wish is full to riot and to rail . In full - blown dignity , see Wolsey stand , Law in his voice , and fortune in ... wishes tow'r , 105 Claim leads to claim , and pow'r advances pow'r ; Till conquest unresisted ceased to please , And ...
... wish is full to riot and to rail . In full - blown dignity , see Wolsey stand , Law in his voice , and fortune in ... wishes tow'r , 105 Claim leads to claim , and pow'r advances pow'r ; Till conquest unresisted ceased to please , And ...
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... wish believe ! Or dream their wishes , and those dreams deceive ! No more my Daphnis comes : no more , my charms ! He comes , he runs , he leaps to my desiring arms . ” - from An Evening Walk WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ( 1787 ) Did Sabine grace ...
... wish believe ! Or dream their wishes , and those dreams deceive ! No more my Daphnis comes : no more , my charms ! He comes , he runs , he leaps to my desiring arms . ” - from An Evening Walk WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ( 1787 ) Did Sabine grace ...
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