Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
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... known conventionally as ' good society ' -- those latter - day Athenians , who , in town or country , spend their time in telling or hearing some new thing , and whose graver and deeper impulses are subor- xviii Preface .
... known conventionally as ' good society ' -- those latter - day Athenians , who , in town or country , spend their time in telling or hearing some new thing , and whose graver and deeper impulses are subor- xviii Preface .
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... tell ; Her tress also should be of crisped gold . With wit , and these , perchance , I might be tried , And knit again with knot that should not slide . Sir Thomas Wyat III . THE SERENADE . " WHO is it that this dark night Underneath my ...
... tell ; Her tress also should be of crisped gold . With wit , and these , perchance , I might be tried , And knit again with knot that should not slide . Sir Thomas Wyat III . THE SERENADE . " WHO is it that this dark night Underneath my ...
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... tell you whom I love ? Hearken then awhile to me , And if such a woman move , As I now shall versifie , Be assur'd ' tis she or none That I love , and love alone . Nature did her so much right , That she scornes the help of art , In as ...
... tell you whom I love ? Hearken then awhile to me , And if such a woman move , As I now shall versifie , Be assur'd ' tis she or none That I love , and love alone . Nature did her so much right , That she scornes the help of art , In as ...
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... Tell me , " said I , in deep distress , " Where may I find my shepherdess ? " " Thou fool , " said Love , " know'st thou not this , In every thing that's good , she is ? In yonder tulip go and seek , There thou may'st find her lip , her ...
... Tell me , " said I , in deep distress , " Where may I find my shepherdess ? " " Thou fool , " said Love , " know'st thou not this , In every thing that's good , she is ? In yonder tulip go and seek , There thou may'st find her lip , her ...
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... tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew . XXVIII . THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE . 66 ' SHEPHERD , what's love ? I pray thee , tell ! " — It is that fountain , and that well , Where pleasure ...
... tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew . XXVIII . THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE . 66 ' SHEPHERD , what's love ? I pray thee , tell ! " — It is that fountain , and that well , Where pleasure ...
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