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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... Self - loving pride , Looks coyly strange , Will , reason's guide , Desire of change , And last of all Blind Fancy's fire , False Beauty's thrall , That binds Desire : * All these I offer to Disdain , By whom FRANCIS DAVISON . 11.
... Self - loving pride , Looks coyly strange , Will , reason's guide , Desire of change , And last of all Blind Fancy's fire , False Beauty's thrall , That binds Desire : * All these I offer to Disdain , By whom FRANCIS DAVISON . 11.
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... looks , thy words , thy grace- Where thou didst haunt , yet I adore the ground ! And where thou stept - O sacred seems that place ! My solitary walks , my widow'd bed , My dreary sighs , my sheets oft bath'd with tears , These shall ...
... looks , thy words , thy grace- Where thou didst haunt , yet I adore the ground ! And where thou stept - O sacred seems that place ! My solitary walks , my widow'd bed , My dreary sighs , my sheets oft bath'd with tears , These shall ...
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... Sighs tell how I were pin'd , Or looks my woes relate ; Then any pregnant wit , That well remarked it , Would soon discern my state . Oft , those that do deserve disdain For forging fancies WILLIAM ALEXANDER , EARL OF STERLINE . 31.
... Sighs tell how I were pin'd , Or looks my woes relate ; Then any pregnant wit , That well remarked it , Would soon discern my state . Oft , those that do deserve disdain For forging fancies WILLIAM ALEXANDER , EARL OF STERLINE . 31.
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... look He never means to see again . And so does Fortune use to smile Upon the short - liv'd favourite's face , Whose swelling hopes she doth beguile , And always casts him in the race . VOL . III . REESE 9. THE UNIVERSTY CALIFORNIA D And ...
... look He never means to see again . And so does Fortune use to smile Upon the short - liv'd favourite's face , Whose swelling hopes she doth beguile , And always casts him in the race . VOL . III . REESE 9. THE UNIVERSTY CALIFORNIA D And ...
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... weight as no burthen was . * Long their fix'd eyes to heaven bent Unchanged , they did never move , As if so great and pure a love No glass but it could represent . When with a sweet though troubled look She first brake 36 REIGN OF JAMES I.
... weight as no burthen was . * Long their fix'd eyes to heaven bent Unchanged , they did never move , As if so great and pure a love No glass but it could represent . When with a sweet though troubled look She first brake 36 REIGN OF JAMES I.
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