Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 - English poetry |
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... did raise : For he , by poems that he did compile , Led in triùmph Love , Chastness , Death , and Fame : But thou triumphs o'er Petrarch's proper name ! Signed " J. Rex . " ROBERT BURTON , OTHERWISE known by the name of Democritus B 2 3.
... did raise : For he , by poems that he did compile , Led in triùmph Love , Chastness , Death , and Fame : But thou triumphs o'er Petrarch's proper name ! Signed " J. Rex . " ROBERT BURTON , OTHERWISE known by the name of Democritus B 2 3.
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... death my fault amended . A Fiction how Cupid made a Nymph wound herself with his arrows 1 . Ir chanc'd of late a shepherd's swain , That went to seek a strayed sheep , Within a thicket , on the plain , Espied a dainty nymph asleep . Her ...
... death my fault amended . A Fiction how Cupid made a Nymph wound herself with his arrows 1 . Ir chanc'd of late a shepherd's swain , That went to seek a strayed sheep , Within a thicket , on the plain , Espied a dainty nymph asleep . Her ...
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... death that smiles , Pleasing , though it kill the whiles , Where death and love , in pretty wiles , Each other mutually beguiles . It is fair beauty's freshest youth : It is the feigned Elysium's truth , The spring that winter'd hearts ...
... death that smiles , Pleasing , though it kill the whiles , Where death and love , in pretty wiles , Each other mutually beguiles . It is fair beauty's freshest youth : It is the feigned Elysium's truth , The spring that winter'd hearts ...
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... taste , which frees from death , And nectar , fragrant as your breath , By Hebe fill'd , who states the prime Of youth , and brails the wings of Time . Here in Adonis ' gardens grow What neither age or 20 REIGN OF JAMES I.
... taste , which frees from death , And nectar , fragrant as your breath , By Hebe fill'd , who states the prime Of youth , and brails the wings of Time . Here in Adonis ' gardens grow What neither age or 20 REIGN OF JAMES I.
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... death , Preserv'd from swallowing seas , when towering waves Mix'd with the clouds and open'd their deep graves . * * * * * Then brought'st me home in safety , that this earth . Might bury me , which fed me from my birth : Blest with a ...
... death , Preserv'd from swallowing seas , when towering waves Mix'd with the clouds and open'd their deep graves . * * * * * Then brought'st me home in safety , that this earth . Might bury me , which fed me from my birth : Blest with a ...
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