The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2Oliver Goldsmith James Williams, 1771 - English poetry |
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... grounds which on the right aspire , In dimnefs from the view retire : The left presents a place of graves , Whose ... ground , Quick to the glancing thought difclofe , Where toil and poverty repose . The flat smooth ftones that bear a ...
... grounds which on the right aspire , In dimnefs from the view retire : The left presents a place of graves , Whose ... ground , Quick to the glancing thought difclofe , Where toil and poverty repose . The flat smooth ftones that bear a ...
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... ground dejected , darting all Their humid beams into the blooming flowers : Or when the mournful tale her mother told , Of what her faithlefs fortune promis'd once , Thrill'd in her thought , they , like the dewy star Of evening , fhone ...
... ground dejected , darting all Their humid beams into the blooming flowers : Or when the mournful tale her mother told , Of what her faithlefs fortune promis'd once , Thrill'd in her thought , they , like the dewy star Of evening , fhone ...
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... ground . The commentators on old Ari- ftotle ( ' tis urg'd in judgment vary : They to their own conceits have brought The image of his gen'ral thought ; Just as the melancholy eye . Sees fleets and armies in the fky ; And , to the poor ...
... ground . The commentators on old Ari- ftotle ( ' tis urg'd in judgment vary : They to their own conceits have brought The image of his gen'ral thought ; Just as the melancholy eye . Sees fleets and armies in the fky ; And , to the poor ...
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