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... nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish , She stretched , in vain , to reach the prize . What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent ...
... nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish , She stretched , in vain , to reach the prize . What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent ...
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... nymphs adorned with every grace That spaniel found for me ) Now wantoned , lost in flags and reeds , Now starting into sight , Pursued the swallow o'er the meads With scarce a slower flight . It was the time when Ouse displayed His ...
... nymphs adorned with every grace That spaniel found for me ) Now wantoned , lost in flags and reeds , Now starting into sight , Pursued the swallow o'er the meads With scarce a slower flight . It was the time when Ouse displayed His ...
Page 86
... nymph between two chariot glasses , She is the Pineapple , and he 20 20 The silly unsuccessful Bee . The maid , who views with pensive air The show - glass fraught with glittering ware , Sees watches , bracelets , rings , and lockets ...
... nymph between two chariot glasses , She is the Pineapple , and he 20 20 The silly unsuccessful Bee . The maid , who views with pensive air The show - glass fraught with glittering ware , Sees watches , bracelets , rings , and lockets ...
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... Nymph must lose her female friend , If more admired than she But where will fierce contention end , If flowers can disagree ? II Within the garden's peaceful scene Appeared two lovely foes , Aspiring to the rank of queen , The Lily and ...
... Nymph must lose her female friend , If more admired than she But where will fierce contention end , If flowers can disagree ? II Within the garden's peaceful scene Appeared two lovely foes , Aspiring to the rank of queen , The Lily and ...
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... faith at last , alone worth all the rest . O man , immortal by a double prize , By fame on earth , by glory in the skies ! 5 10 THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS O Two nymphs , both EPITAPH ON JOHNSON 121 Epitaph on Johnson •
... faith at last , alone worth all the rest . O man , immortal by a double prize , By fame on earth , by glory in the skies ! 5 10 THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS O Two nymphs , both EPITAPH ON JOHNSON 121 Epitaph on Johnson •
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote