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Page 43
With her , associate , Pleasure came , Gay Pleasure , frolic - loving dame ; Her mien all swimming in delight , Her beauties half reveal'd to fight ; Loose flow'd her garments from the ground , And caught the kissing winds around .
With her , associate , Pleasure came , Gay Pleasure , frolic - loving dame ; Her mien all swimming in delight , Her beauties half reveal'd to fight ; Loose flow'd her garments from the ground , And caught the kissing winds around .
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Full on ourselves descending in a line Pleasure's bright beam , is feeble in delight : Delight intense is taken by rebound ; Reverberated pleasures fire the breast . Celestial happiness , whene'er she ftoops To visit earth , one shrine ...
Full on ourselves descending in a line Pleasure's bright beam , is feeble in delight : Delight intense is taken by rebound ; Reverberated pleasures fire the breast . Celestial happiness , whene'er she ftoops To visit earth , one shrine ...
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I. time , O ye muses ! was happily spent , When Phæbe went with me wherever I went : Ten thousand soft pleasures I felt in my ... Thou know'ft , little Cupid , if Phoebe was there , It was pleasure to look at , ' twas music to hear .
I. time , O ye muses ! was happily spent , When Phæbe went with me wherever I went : Ten thousand soft pleasures I felt in my ... Thou know'ft , little Cupid , if Phoebe was there , It was pleasure to look at , ' twas music to hear .
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Contents
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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