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Lovely penitent , arise , Come , and claim thy kindred skies , Come , thy sister angels say , Thou hast wept thy ftains away . Let experience now decide ' Twixt the good and evil try'd , In the smooth , enchanted ground , Say , unfold ...
Lovely penitent , arise , Come , and claim thy kindred skies , Come , thy sister angels say , Thou hast wept thy ftains away . Let experience now decide ' Twixt the good and evil try'd , In the smooth , enchanted ground , Say , unfold ...
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There was on both sides much to say : She'd hear the cause another day ; And so she did , and then a third ; She heard it - there she kept her word : But with rejoinders and replies , Long bills , and answers stuff'd with lies , Demur ...
There was on both sides much to say : She'd hear the cause another day ; And so she did , and then a third ; She heard it - there she kept her word : But with rejoinders and replies , Long bills , and answers stuff'd with lies , Demur ...
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They say ( for in good truth they speak With small respeat of that old Greek ) That , putting all his words together , Tis three blue beans , one blue bladder . Alma , they ftrenuously maintain , Sits cock - horse on her throne the ...
They say ( for in good truth they speak With small respeat of that old Greek ) That , putting all his words together , Tis three blue beans , one blue bladder . Alma , they ftrenuously maintain , Sits cock - horse on her throne the ...
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Collin and Lucy a Ballad | 84 |
On the Death of the Lord Protector | 91 |
Satire | 135 |
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Alma beauty beſt born breaſt cauſe charms dead dear death delight Dick divine earth ev'ry eyes face fair fall fame fancy fate fear fire firſt folly fool give grace grave ground half hand head heart Heav'n hope hour human juſt kind knew laſt leave light live look maid mind moſt muſe muſt nature ne'er never night nymph o'er once pain paſſion peace plain play pleaſe pleaſure poets poor pow'r praiſe pride Reaſon reſt riſe ſaid ſay ſcene ſee ſeen ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmile ſome ſoul ſtand ſtill ſuch ſweet taught tell thee theſe things thoſe thou thought thro true turn uſe vain virtue whoſe wife wiſdom wiſe youth
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| Title | The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2 The Beauties of English Poesy, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Editor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | James Williams, 1771 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2006 |
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