Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... ever 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 .
... ever 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 .
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Joseph Addison. What awe Can I forget the difmal night , that gave My foul's beft 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 ...
Joseph Addison. What awe Can I forget the difmal night , that gave My foul's beft 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 ...
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... night cares ! But ftill 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 ftill 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 streams of light , The Bees thro ' woods and forests take their flight . They rifle ev'ry flow'r , and lightly skim The crystal brook , and fip the running stream ; And thus they feed their young with ...
... night , And fummer here defcends in streams of light , The Bees thro ' woods and forests take their flight . They rifle ev'ry flow'r , and lightly skim The crystal 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 firft his opening roses blow , Firft ripening autumn bent his fruitful bough . When piercing colds had burft the brittle ...
... night , The earth unpurchas'd dainties would afford , And his own garden furnish out his board : The spring did firft his opening roses blow , Firft ripening autumn bent his fruitful bough . When piercing colds had burft the brittle ...
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