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... thoughts conveyed in natural language , whereas in- spiration is a fupernatural agent , and what in one age passes for sublime , may in ano- ther be only confidered as abfurd . POEMS of the ballad kind have been omit- ted , PREFACE . iii.
... thoughts conveyed in natural language , whereas in- spiration is a fupernatural agent , and what in one age passes for sublime , may in ano- ther be only confidered as abfurd . POEMS of the ballad kind have been omit- ted , PREFACE . iii.
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George Ellis. POEMS of the ballad kind have been omit- ted , because they seem lefs connected with the history of our poetry , than with that of our ancient manners and customs . For this reason too , the longest are scarcely fufcep ...
George Ellis. POEMS of the ballad kind have been omit- ted , because they seem lefs connected with the history of our poetry , than with that of our ancient manners and customs . For this reason too , the longest are scarcely fufcep ...
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... kind , That could have gone fo near her heart ; And this was chiefly all her pain , She could not make the like again . Sith Nature thus gave her the praise , To be the chiefeft work fhe wrought ; In faith , methinks , fome better ways ...
... kind , That could have gone fo near her heart ; And this was chiefly all her pain , She could not make the like again . Sith Nature thus gave her the praise , To be the chiefeft work fhe wrought ; In faith , methinks , fome better ways ...
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... make . She may be well compared Unto the Phenix kind , Whose like was never seen or heard , That any man can find . In life she is Diana chaste , In truth Penelope , In word and eke in deed ftedfaft , What will ANONYMOUS . 7.
... make . She may be well compared Unto the Phenix kind , Whose like was never seen or heard , That any man can find . In life she is Diana chaste , In truth Penelope , In word and eke in deed ftedfaft , What will ANONYMOUS . 7.
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... ! 66 SONG . WHO is Silvia ? what is she , " That all our fwains commend her ? " Holy , fair , and wife is she , The heav'ns fuch grace did lend her , That she might admired be . " Is fhe kind as she is fair ? " -32 WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR .
... ! 66 SONG . WHO is Silvia ? what is she , " That all our fwains commend her ? " Holy , fair , and wife is she , The heav'ns fuch grace did lend her , That she might admired be . " Is fhe kind as she is fair ? " -32 WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR .
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