Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1776 - English poetry |
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... fate ! Yet has this sweet neglecter of my woes The softest , tend'rest breast that Pity knows ! Her eyes shed mercy wheresoe'er they shine , And her soul melts at every woe - but mine ! Sure then some secret fate for guilt unwill'd ...
... fate ! Yet has this sweet neglecter of my woes The softest , tend'rest breast that Pity knows ! Her eyes shed mercy wheresoe'er they shine , And her soul melts at every woe - but mine ! Sure then some secret fate for guilt unwill'd ...
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... fate , " Heav'n grants to prop thy virtue ere too late . " Know , if thou wilt thy dear - lov'd wife deplore , " Olympia waits thee on a foreign shore , " There in a cell thy last remains be spent ; " Away ! deceive Despair , and find ...
... fate , " Heav'n grants to prop thy virtue ere too late . " Know , if thou wilt thy dear - lov'd wife deplore , " Olympia waits thee on a foreign shore , " There in a cell thy last remains be spent ; " Away ! deceive Despair , and find ...
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... fate Which would if Homer liv'd on Homer wait . And lo ! his fecond labour claims thy care , Ulyffes ' toils fucceed Achilles ' war . Hafte to the work ; the ladies long to fee The pious frauds of chafte Penelope : 50 55 Helen they long ...
... fate Which would if Homer liv'd on Homer wait . And lo ! his fecond labour claims thy care , Ulyffes ' toils fucceed Achilles ' war . Hafte to the work ; the ladies long to fee The pious frauds of chafte Penelope : 50 55 Helen they long ...
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