Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 páginas "The object of this work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical poets, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with biographical and critical notices of their authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth" -- Page [i]. |
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... shine and rain . The foolish sports I did on thee bestow , Make all my art and labour fruitless now ; Where once such fairies dance , no grass doth ever grow . " When my new mind had no infusion known , Thou gav'st so deep a tincture of ...
... shine and rain . The foolish sports I did on thee bestow , Make all my art and labour fruitless now ; Where once such fairies dance , no grass doth ever grow . " When my new mind had no infusion known , Thou gav'st so deep a tincture of ...
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... shine melts away his cold . Encouraged at the sight of thee , But , where firm bodies thy free course oppose , Gently thy source the land o'erflows ; Takes there possession , and does make , Of colours mingled light , a thick and ...
... shine melts away his cold . Encouraged at the sight of thee , But , where firm bodies thy free course oppose , Gently thy source the land o'erflows ; Takes there possession , and does make , Of colours mingled light , a thick and ...
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... shine . " Thus while God spake , ambrosial fragrance fill'd All Heaven , and in the blessed spirits elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd . Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious : in him all his Father shone ...
... shine . " Thus while God spake , ambrosial fragrance fill'd All Heaven , and in the blessed spirits elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd . Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious : in him all his Father shone ...
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... shine , as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator , as they now Shot upward still direct , whence no way round Shadow from body opaque can fall and the air , No where so clear , sharpen'd his visual ray To objects distant far ...
... shine , as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator , as they now Shot upward still direct , whence no way round Shadow from body opaque can fall and the air , No where so clear , sharpen'd his visual ray To objects distant far ...
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... shine these ? for whom This glorious sight , when sleep hath shut all eyes ? " To whom our general ancestor replied . Daughter of God and Man , accomplish'd Eve , These have their course to finish round the Earth , By morrow evening ...
... shine these ? for whom This glorious sight , when sleep hath shut all eyes ? " To whom our general ancestor replied . Daughter of God and Man , accomplish'd Eve , These have their course to finish round the Earth , By morrow evening ...
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