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... sweet disorder loft , she blush'd confent . The news immediate to her mother brought , While , pierc'd with anxious thought , she pin'd away The lonely moments for Lavinia's fate ; Amaz'd , and scarce believing what she heard , Joy feiz ...
... sweet disorder loft , she blush'd confent . The news immediate to her mother brought , While , pierc'd with anxious thought , she pin'd away The lonely moments for Lavinia's fate ; Amaz'd , and scarce believing what she heard , Joy feiz ...
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... Sweet , forgive A Wolf's addrefs- -In her I live ; Love from her eyes like lightning came , And set my marrow all on flame ; Let your confent confirm my choice , And ratify our nuptial joys . Me ample wealth and pow'r attend , Wide o'er ...
... Sweet , forgive A Wolf's addrefs- -In her I live ; Love from her eyes like lightning came , And set my marrow all on flame ; Let your confent confirm my choice , And ratify our nuptial joys . Me ample wealth and pow'r attend , Wide o'er ...
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... sweets restore , That breathe along Arabia's fhore . The trav'ler , if he chance to ftray , May turn , uncenfur'd , to his way ; Polluted streams again are pure , And deepest wounds admit a cure ; But woman ! no redemption knows ; The ...
... sweets restore , That breathe along Arabia's fhore . The trav'ler , if he chance to ftray , May turn , uncenfur'd , to his way ; Polluted streams again are pure , And deepest wounds admit a cure ; But woman ! no redemption knows ; The ...
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... sweet Perdition lay , And Pity touch'd her foul with woe , To fee a world fo loft below ; When strait the breeze began to breathe Airs , gently wafted from beneath , That bore commiffion'd witchcraft thence , And reach'd her fympathy of ...
... sweet Perdition lay , And Pity touch'd her foul with woe , To fee a world fo loft below ; When strait the breeze began to breathe Airs , gently wafted from beneath , That bore commiffion'd witchcraft thence , And reach'd her fympathy of ...
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... sweet perfwafion charm'd , Unnerv'd the ftrong , the fteel'd , difarm'd ; No fafety e'en the flying find , Who , vent'rous , look but once behind . Thus was the much admiring maid , While distant , more than half betray'd . With fmiles ...
... sweet perfwafion charm'd , Unnerv'd the ftrong , the fteel'd , difarm'd ; No fafety e'en the flying find , Who , vent'rous , look but once behind . Thus was the much admiring maid , While distant , more than half betray'd . With fmiles ...
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Page 98 - ... immortal ! infeft infinite ! A worm ! a god ! — I tremble at myfelf, And in myfelf am loft ! at home a ftranger, Thought wanders up and down, furpriz'd, aghaft, And wond'ring at her own: How reafon reels ? O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly diftrefs'd ! what joy, what dread...