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... bright Original . Now Ovid boafts th ' Advantage of thy Song , And tells his Story in the British tongue ; Thy charming Verfe , and fair Translations , show How thy own Laurel first began to grow ; How wild Lycaon chang'd by angry Gods ...
... bright Original . Now Ovid boafts th ' Advantage of thy Song , And tells his Story in the British tongue ; Thy charming Verfe , and fair Translations , show How thy own Laurel first began to grow ; How wild Lycaon chang'd by angry Gods ...
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... bright , And all the Sea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce Eruptions broke , Fills Heav'n with Ashes , and the Earth with Smoke ; Here Crags of broken Röcks are twirl'd on high , Here molten Stones and fcatter'd ...
... bright , And all the Sea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce Eruptions broke , Fills Heav'n with Ashes , and the Earth with Smoke ; Here Crags of broken Röcks are twirl'd on high , Here molten Stones and fcatter'd ...
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... bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathsom and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whofe dufty mouth Grows dry with heat , and fpits a maukish froth , The firft are best- From their o'erflowing combs , you'll ...
... bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathsom and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whofe dufty mouth Grows dry with heat , and fpits a maukish froth , The firft are best- From their o'erflowing combs , you'll ...
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... bright Cecilia's name , their lays ; The Organ labours in her praise . Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From ev'ry voice the tuneful accents Aly , In foaring Trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks , and dwells upon the ...
... bright Cecilia's name , their lays ; The Organ labours in her praise . Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From ev'ry voice the tuneful accents Aly , In foaring Trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks , and dwells upon the ...
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... bright , Betrays a bottom odious to the fight . But now , my Muse , a fofter ftrain reherfe , Turn ev'ry line with art , and smooth thy verfe ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Mufe tune thy verfe , with art , to Waller's ...
... bright , Betrays a bottom odious to the fight . But now , my Muse , a fofter ftrain reherfe , Turn ev'ry line with art , and smooth thy verfe ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Mufe tune thy verfe , with art , to Waller's ...
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Afide arms battel beauties Behold bleft blood bofom bower breaſt bright Britannia's Cadmus caft charms cou'd courſe Cyclops Cycnus Danube death defcription diftant ev'ry eyes fafe faid fame fate fays fear feas fecret feems felf feven fhade fhall fhining fhore fhould fhow fide fields fight fire firft firſt flain foft fome foul fpring ftand ftill ftory fubject fuch fudden fury Gaul Georgic Goddeſs Gods GRIDELINE grief heart heaven Hero himſelf Jove joys KING laſt limbs loft maid mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt numbers Nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Poem Poet prefent purſue QUEEN rage reft rife riſe Rofamond ROSAMON round SCENE ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhow Sir TRUSTY skies ſpeak ſtands ſtill ſtood ſtreams thee theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thunder toils verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin Whilft winds woods wou'd youth