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... charms of Edith's eyes , Nor wanted hope to gain the prize ,拳 Cou'd ladies look within ; But one Sir Topaz drefs'd with art , And , if a fhape cou'd win a heart , He had a shape to win . B 3 Edwin Edwin , if right I read my fong , With ...
... charms of Edith's eyes , Nor wanted hope to gain the prize ,拳 Cou'd ladies look within ; But one Sir Topaz drefs'd with art , And , if a fhape cou'd win a heart , He had a shape to win . B 3 Edwin Edwin , if right I read my fong , With ...
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... charm , he crys , And let it fairly now fuffice The gambol has been shown . " But Oberon anfwers with a fmile , Content thee , Edwin , for a while , The vantage is thine own . Here ended all the phantom play ; They smelt the fresh ...
... charm , he crys , And let it fairly now fuffice The gambol has been shown . " But Oberon anfwers with a fmile , Content thee , Edwin , for a while , The vantage is thine own . Here ended all the phantom play ; They smelt the fresh ...
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... charms her down - caft modefty conceal'd . That very moment love and chafte defire Sprung in his bofom , to himself unknown ; For ftill the world prevail'd , and its dread laugh , Which scarce the firm philofopher can scorn , Should his ...
... charms her down - caft modefty conceal'd . That very moment love and chafte defire Sprung in his bofom , to himself unknown ; For ftill the world prevail'd , and its dread laugh , Which scarce the firm philofopher can scorn , Should his ...
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... charm Of goodness irrefiftible , and all In 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 ...
... charm Of goodness irrefiftible , and all In 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 ...
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... charm that fix'd`your husband's love ; Weigh well his humour . Was it dress That gave your beauty power to bless ? Purfue it ftill ; be neater feen ; ' Tis always frugal to be clean ; So fhall you keep alive defire , And Time's swift ...
... charm that fix'd`your husband's love ; Weigh well his humour . Was it dress That gave your beauty power to bless ? Purfue it ftill ; be neater feen ; ' Tis always frugal to be clean ; So fhall you keep alive defire , And Time's swift ...
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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...