Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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Page 46
... pleasing landskip fades away . Great Cowley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too closely on the reader prefs : He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us less , : One One ...
... pleasing landskip fades away . Great Cowley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too closely on the reader prefs : He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us less , : One One ...
Page 65
... pleasing airs my ravish'd foul confound With circling notes and labyrinths of found ; Here domes and temples rife in distant views , And opening palaces invite my Mufe . How has kind heav'n adorn'd the happy land , And scatter'd ...
... pleasing airs my ravish'd foul confound With circling notes and labyrinths of found ; Here domes and temples rife in distant views , And opening palaces invite my Mufe . How has kind heav'n adorn'd the happy land , And scatter'd ...
Page 160
... pleasing WHE woe , Rivers forgot to run , and winds to blow , While lift'ning forests cover'd , as he play'd , The soft musician in a moving shade . That this night's strains the fame fuccefs may find , The force of mufic is to mufic ...
... pleasing WHE woe , Rivers forgot to run , and winds to blow , While lift'ning forests cover'd , as he play'd , The soft musician in a moving shade . That this night's strains the fame fuccefs may find , The force of mufic is to mufic ...
Page 241
... on , And learns to tattle in the nurse's tone . The Goddess , thus disguis'd in age , beguil'd With pleasing stories her falfe fofter - child . VOL . I. R Much Much did fhe talk of love , and when the POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS . 241.
... on , And learns to tattle in the nurse's tone . The Goddess , thus disguis'd in age , beguil'd With pleasing stories her falfe fofter - child . VOL . I. R Much Much did fhe talk of love , and when the POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS . 241.
Page 299
... pleasing variety of scenes and land- skips , whilft it teaches us ; and makes the dryeft of its precepts look like a description . · A Georgic therefore is fome part of the • science of husbandry put into a pleafing drefs , and fet off ...
... pleasing variety of scenes and land- skips , whilft it teaches us ; and makes the dryeft of its precepts look like a description . · A Georgic therefore is fome part of the • science of husbandry put into a pleafing drefs , and fet off ...
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