Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... night , that gave My foul's best part for ever to the grave ! How filent did his old companions tread , By mid - night lamps , the manfions of the dead , Thro ' breathing ftatues , then unheeded things , Thro ' rows of warriors , and ...
... night , that gave My foul's best part for ever to the grave ! How filent did his old companions tread , By mid - night lamps , the manfions of the dead , Thro ' breathing ftatues , then unheeded things , Thro ' rows of warriors , and ...
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... night cares ! But still the God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too late the verse the mighty act fucceeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full fucceffion ran ...
... night cares ! But still the God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too late the verse the mighty act fucceeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full fucceffion ran ...
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... night , And fummer here defcends in ftreams of light , The bees thro ' woods and forefts take their flight . They rifle ev'ry flow'r , and lightly fkim The cryftal brook , and fip the running stream ; And thus they feed their young with ...
... night , And fummer here defcends in ftreams of light , The bees thro ' woods and forefts take their flight . They rifle ev'ry flow'r , and lightly fkim The cryftal brook , and fip the running stream ; And thus they feed their young with ...
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... night , The earth unpurchas❜d dainties would afford , And his own garden furnish out his board : The Spring did first his opening roses blow , First ripening autumn bent his fruitful bough . When piercing colds had burst the brittle ...
... night , The earth unpurchas❜d dainties would afford , And his own garden furnish out his board : The Spring did first his opening roses blow , First ripening autumn bent his fruitful bough . When piercing colds had burst the brittle ...
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... night , returning from their toils , Bring home their thighs clog'd with the meadows spoils . ? On lavender , and faffron - buds they feed , On bending ofiers , and the balmy reed , From purple violets and the teile they bring Their ...
... night , returning from their toils , Bring home their thighs clog'd with the meadows spoils . ? On lavender , and faffron - buds they feed , On bending ofiers , and the balmy reed , From purple violets and the teile they bring Their ...
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