Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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Page xxviii
... felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the s e verse , that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected fuits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with ableeding heart . Can What awe Can I forget the difmal night , that xxviii The PREFACE .
... felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the s e verse , that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected fuits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with ableeding heart . Can What awe Can I forget the difmal night , that xxviii The PREFACE .
Page xxix
... forgetful if I form a fong , My lyre be broken , and untun'd my tongue , My grief be doubled , from thy image free , And mirth a torment , unchaftis'd by thee . Of Oft let me range the gloomy lles alone ( Sad I xxix ]
... forgetful if I form a fong , My lyre be broken , and untun'd my tongue , My grief be doubled , from thy image free , And mirth a torment , unchaftis'd by thee . Of Oft let me range the gloomy lles alone ( Sad I xxix ]
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... Grief chill'd his Breaft , and check'd his rifing Thought ; Penfive and fad , his drooping Muse betrays The Roman Genius in its last Decays . Prevailing Warmth has ftill thy mind possest , And fecond Youth is kindled in thy breast ...
... Grief chill'd his Breaft , and check'd his rifing Thought ; Penfive and fad , his drooping Muse betrays The Roman Genius in its last Decays . Prevailing Warmth has ftill thy mind possest , And fecond Youth is kindled in thy breast ...
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... grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold , Shrunk up with hunger , and benum'd with cold ; In drawling hums the ...
... grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold , Shrunk up with hunger , and benum'd with cold ; In drawling hums the ...
Page 102
... grief and full of love , Impatient for my Lord's return I figh , I pine , I rave , I mourn , Was ever paffion cross'd like mine ? To rend my breaft , And break my reft , A thousand thousand Ills combine . Abfence wounds me , Fear ...
... grief and full of love , Impatient for my Lord's return I figh , I pine , I rave , I mourn , Was ever paffion cross'd like mine ? To rend my breaft , And break my reft , A thousand thousand Ills combine . Abfence wounds me , Fear ...
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