The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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Pàgina xv
... minds of men , though they could not entirely escape our author's plan , are far from being the prin- cipal objects of it . And , indeed , the man- ners and fentiments of his readers are not properly the objects of his research , but ...
... minds of men , though they could not entirely escape our author's plan , are far from being the prin- cipal objects of it . And , indeed , the man- ners and fentiments of his readers are not properly the objects of his research , but ...
Pàgina 2
... mind , and did my body eat . Yet idleness I faw ( lam'd with the gout ) Had entrance , when poor truth was kept without ; There faw I drunkennefs , with dropfies fwoll'n ; And pamper'd luft , that many a night had stol'n Over the abby ...
... mind , and did my body eat . Yet idleness I faw ( lam'd with the gout ) Had entrance , when poor truth was kept without ; There faw I drunkennefs , with dropfies fwoll'n ; And pamper'd luft , that many a night had stol'n Over the abby ...
Pàgina 3
... mind . Hoffman's Tragedy . ABSENCE . Like as the culver on the bared bough , Sits mourning for the absence of her mate , And in her fongs fends many a wifhful vow , For his return , that feems to linger late : So I alone , now left ...
... mind . Hoffman's Tragedy . ABSENCE . Like as the culver on the bared bough , Sits mourning for the absence of her mate , And in her fongs fends many a wifhful vow , For his return , that feems to linger late : So I alone , now left ...
Pàgina 4
... mind , Careless eyes , lips , and hands to mifs . Our two fouls therefore , which are one , Though I must go , endure not yet A breach , but an expanfion ; Like gold to airy thinness beat . If they be two , they are two fo As ftiff twin ...
... mind , Careless eyes , lips , and hands to mifs . Our two fouls therefore , which are one , Though I must go , endure not yet A breach , but an expanfion ; Like gold to airy thinness beat . If they be two , they are two fo As ftiff twin ...
Pàgina 5
... mind , Which with expectation pin'd , Love of a confumption dies . Wonder not if I ftay not here : Hurt lovers ( like to wounded deer ) Muft shift the place ; for ftanding still Leaves too much time to know our ill : Where there is a ...
... mind , Which with expectation pin'd , Love of a confumption dies . Wonder not if I ftay not here : Hurt lovers ( like to wounded deer ) Muft shift the place ; for ftanding still Leaves too much time to know our ill : Where there is a ...
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys Visualització completa - 1740 |
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