The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2Oliver Goldsmith James Williams, 1771 - English poetry |
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... rise or tumble , As matter and as motion jumble . 1 % The poets , now , and painters , hold : This thefis both abfurd and bold : And your good - natur'd gods , they say , Defcend fome twice or thrice a - day : Elfe all these things we ...
... rise or tumble , As matter and as motion jumble . 1 % The poets , now , and painters , hold : This thefis both abfurd and bold : And your good - natur'd gods , they say , Defcend fome twice or thrice a - day : Elfe all these things we ...
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... harmonious numbers yield , And ev'ry couplet be with fancy fill'd : If yet a juft coherence be not made Between each thought , and the whole model laid So So right , that ev'ry line may higher rise , 165 THE BEAUTIES OF.
... harmonious numbers yield , And ev'ry couplet be with fancy fill'd : If yet a juft coherence be not made Between each thought , and the whole model laid So So right , that ev'ry line may higher rise , 165 THE BEAUTIES OF.
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... rise , perhaps ; and I have mist them : But I can call to my affistance Proximity ( mark that ! ) and distance : Can prove , that all things , on occasion , Love union , and defire adhesion That Alma merely is a scale ; And motives ...
... rise , perhaps ; and I have mist them : But I can call to my affistance Proximity ( mark that ! ) and distance : Can prove , that all things , on occasion , Love union , and defire adhesion That Alma merely is a scale ; And motives ...
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Palemon and Lavinia | 13 |
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