Specimens of the Early English Poets,: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language;Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row., 1811 - English poetry |
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... delight , my crown , my bliss . All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . ' Tis my sole plague to be alone ; I am a beast , a monster grown ; I will no light nor company , I find it now my misery . The scene is ...
... delight , my crown , my bliss . All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . ' Tis my sole plague to be alone ; I am a beast , a monster grown ; I will no light nor company , I find it now my misery . The scene is ...
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... delighted to " read in , while prisoner in Carisbroke Castle . " This , to- gether with a Paraphrase upon Job , Ecclesiastes , Lamen- tations , & c . was reprinted in 1638 , fol . and in 1676 , 8vo . The last contains , besides , a ...
... delighted to " read in , while prisoner in Carisbroke Castle . " This , to- gether with a Paraphrase upon Job , Ecclesiastes , Lamen- tations , & c . was reprinted in 1638 , fol . and in 1676 , 8vo . The last contains , besides , a ...
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... delights despise As shadows , and vain fantasies . Those sons of earth , enthrall'd to sense , Condemn what is our excellence . The air , immortal souls , the skies , The angels in their hierarchies , Unseen , to all things seen ...
... delights despise As shadows , and vain fantasies . Those sons of earth , enthrall'd to sense , Condemn what is our excellence . The air , immortal souls , the skies , The angels in their hierarchies , Unseen , to all things seen ...
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... delight in dainties store One stomach feed at once , no more : And , when with homely fare we feast , With us it doth as well digest ; And many times we better speed , For our wild fruits no surfeits breed . If we sometimes the willow ...
... delight in dainties store One stomach feed at once , no more : And , when with homely fare we feast , With us it doth as well digest ; And many times we better speed , For our wild fruits no surfeits breed . If we sometimes the willow ...
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... delight The pleasures of the time unite , To give a triumph to their love , They staid at last , and on the grass Reposed so , as o'er his breast She bow'd her gracious head to rest , Such a weight as no burthen was . Long their fix'd ...
... delight The pleasures of the time unite , To give a triumph to their love , They staid at last , and on the grass Reposed so , as o'er his breast She bow'd her gracious head to rest , Such a weight as no burthen was . Long their fix'd ...
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