Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 51 Had ye been there for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore , The Muse herself , for her enchanting son , Whom universal Nature did lament , When , by the rout ...
... stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 51 Had ye been there for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore , The Muse herself , for her enchanting son , Whom universal Nature did lament , When , by the rout ...
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... stream , Took in by lot ' twixt high and nether Jove the Imperial rule of all the sea - girt isles , So sinks the ... streams along , With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves , And hears the unexpressive nuptial song , In the blest ...
... stream , Took in by lot ' twixt high and nether Jove the Imperial rule of all the sea - girt isles , So sinks the ... streams along , With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves , And hears the unexpressive nuptial song , In the blest ...
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... stream , and nothing wear frieze , The All - giver would be unthank'd , would be prais'd , 770 If every just man , that now pines with want , Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly pamper'd Luxury Now heaps upon ...
... stream , and nothing wear frieze , The All - giver would be unthank'd , would be prais'd , 770 If every just man , that now pines with want , Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly pamper'd Luxury Now heaps upon ...
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... stream Of pansies , pinks , and gaudy daffodils . And , as the old swain said , she can unlock The clasping charm ... streams with wily glance , Rise , rise , and heave thy rosy head , From thy coral - paven bed , And bridle in thy ...
... stream Of pansies , pinks , and gaudy daffodils . And , as the old swain said , she can unlock The clasping charm ... streams with wily glance , Rise , rise , and heave thy rosy head , From thy coral - paven bed , And bridle in thy ...
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... stream ; fierce Phlegethon , Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage .. Far off from these , a slow and silent stream , Lethe , the river of oblivion , rolls Her watery labyrinth , whereof who drinks , Forth with his former state ...
... stream ; fierce Phlegethon , Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage .. Far off from these , a slow and silent stream , Lethe , the river of oblivion , rolls Her watery labyrinth , whereof who drinks , Forth with his former state ...
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