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... ev'ry deal they laugh and fing , And antic feats devise ; 4 Some wind and tumble like an ape , And other - fome tranfmute their shape In Edwin's wond'ring eyes . Till one , at last , that Robin hight , Renown'd for pinching maids by ...
... ev'ry deal they laugh and fing , And antic feats devise ; 4 Some wind and tumble like an ape , And other - fome tranfmute their shape In Edwin's wond'ring eyes . Till one , at last , that Robin hight , Renown'd for pinching maids by ...
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... ev'ry blow ? Few are my joys ; alas ! how foon forgot ! On that kind quarter thou invad'st me not , While sharp and numberless my sorrows fall Yet thou repeat'ft , and multiply'ft ' em all ! Is chance a guilt , that my difaftrous heart ...
... ev'ry blow ? Few are my joys ; alas ! how foon forgot ! On that kind quarter thou invad'st me not , While sharp and numberless my sorrows fall Yet thou repeat'ft , and multiply'ft ' em all ! Is chance a guilt , that my difaftrous heart ...
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... ev'ry comfort flow'd ! Loft to the life you gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom❜d before ; New - born , I may a nobler mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely Supremely lovely , and ...
... ev'ry comfort flow'd ! Loft to the life you gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom❜d before ; New - born , I may a nobler mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely Supremely lovely , and ...
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... ev'ry morn , bestows The cryftal dew , to cleanfe the rofe : Thofe treffes , as the raven black , That way'd in ringlets down your back , Uncomb'd , and injur'd by neglect , Destroy the face which once they deckt . Whence this ...
... ev'ry morn , bestows The cryftal dew , to cleanfe the rofe : Thofe treffes , as the raven black , That way'd in ringlets down your back , Uncomb'd , and injur'd by neglect , Destroy the face which once they deckt . Whence this ...
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... ev'ry woman is the fame . Then ftudy , chiefly , to improve . The 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 ...
... ev'ry woman is the fame . Then ftudy , chiefly , to improve . The 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 ...
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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...