Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... fear , If Oberon had chanced to hear , That Mab his queen should have been there , He would not have abode it . She mounts her chariot with a trice , Nor would she stay for no advice , Until her maids , that were so nice , To wait on ...
... fear , If Oberon had chanced to hear , That Mab his queen should have been there , He would not have abode it . She mounts her chariot with a trice , Nor would she stay for no advice , Until her maids , that were so nice , To wait on ...
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... fear , All to one female idol bend , Whilst her high pride does scarce descend To mark their follies , he would swear That these her guard of eunuchs were , And that a more majestic queen , Or humbler slaves , he had not seen . All this ...
... fear , All to one female idol bend , Whilst her high pride does scarce descend To mark their follies , he would swear That these her guard of eunuchs were , And that a more majestic queen , Or humbler slaves , he had not seen . All this ...
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... fear , outflies the wind . ON A GIRDLE . THAT which her slender waist confin'd Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done . It was my heaven's extremest sphere , The pale ...
... fear , outflies the wind . ON A GIRDLE . THAT which her slender waist confin'd Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done . It was my heaven's extremest sphere , The pale ...
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... fear Dares praise , with such full art , what make you here ? Here , where the Summer is so little seen , That leaves ( her cheapest wealth ) scarce reach at green , You come , as if the silver planet were Misled a while from her much ...
... fear Dares praise , with such full art , what make you here ? Here , where the Summer is so little seen , That leaves ( her cheapest wealth ) scarce reach at green , You come , as if the silver planet were Misled a while from her much ...
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... fear'd no blows but such as bruise . His breeches were of rugged woollen , And had been at the siege of Bullen ; To old King Harry so well known , Some writers held they were his own : Through they were lined with many a piece Of ...
... fear'd no blows but such as bruise . His breeches were of rugged woollen , And had been at the siege of Bullen ; To old King Harry so well known , Some writers held they were his own : Through they were lined with many a piece Of ...
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