The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2Oliver Goldsmith James Williams, 1771 - English poetry |
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... smile , Precarious courtesy ! Not Virtue's fure , Self - given , folar , ray of found delight . In ev'ry vary'd posture , place , and hour , How widow'd ev'ry thought of ev'ry joy ! Thought ; Thought , busy thought ! too busy for my 102 ...
... smile , Precarious courtesy ! Not Virtue's fure , Self - given , folar , ray of found delight . In ev'ry vary'd posture , place , and hour , How widow'd ev'ry thought of ev'ry joy ! Thought ; Thought , busy thought ! too busy for my 102 ...
Page 122
... smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly ; That common , but opprobrious lot ! Paft hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of Futurity benumb'd ...
... smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly ; That common , but opprobrious lot ! Paft hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of Futurity benumb'd ...
Page 151
... smile . III . For when Paridel tries in the dance Any favour with Phyllis to find , O how , with one trivial glance , Might the ruin the peace of my mind ! H 4 In In ringlets he dreffes his hair , And his crook ENGLISH POESY . 151.
... smile . III . For when Paridel tries in the dance Any favour with Phyllis to find , O how , with one trivial glance , Might the ruin the peace of my mind ! H 4 In In ringlets he dreffes his hair , And his crook ENGLISH POESY . 151.
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