The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2Oliver Goldsmith James Williams, 1771 - English poetry |
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... Sense backward shrinks , and shuns the fight ;; For there the transitory train , Of time , and form , and care , and pain , And matter's grofs incumb'ring mass , Man's late affociates , cannot pass , But , finking , quit th ' immortal ...
... Sense backward shrinks , and shuns the fight ;; For there the transitory train , Of time , and form , and care , and pain , And matter's grofs incumb'ring mass , Man's late affociates , cannot pass , But , finking , quit th ' immortal ...
Page 57
... sense informs , and fooths , and cheers : Yet , like an angel in disguise , She shines but to fome favour'd eyes ; Nor is the distant herd allow'd To view the radiance thro ' the cloud . But thine is ev'ry winning art ; Thine is the ...
... sense informs , and fooths , and cheers : Yet , like an angel in disguise , She shines but to fome favour'd eyes ; Nor is the distant herd allow'd To view the radiance thro ' the cloud . But thine is ev'ry winning art ; Thine is the ...
Page 218
... sense his meat devours ; But only smells the peel and flow'rs ; And he must be an idle dreamer , Who leaves the pye , and gnaws the streamer . That Cupid goes with bow and arrows , And Venus keeps her coach and sparrows , Is all but ...
... sense his meat devours ; But only smells the peel and flow'rs ; And he must be an idle dreamer , Who leaves the pye , and gnaws the streamer . That Cupid goes with bow and arrows , And Venus keeps her coach and sparrows , Is all but ...
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