The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 4John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... sweet Sir ! Beza , then Some Jefuits , and two reverend men Of our two academies , I nam'd . Here He ftopt me , and faid ; Nay , your apofles were Good pretty linguifts ; fo Panurgus was , Yet a poor gentleman ; all these may pafs By ...
... sweet Sir ! Beza , then Some Jefuits , and two reverend men Of our two academies , I nam'd . Here He ftopt me , and faid ; Nay , your apofles were Good pretty linguifts ; fo Panurgus was , Yet a poor gentleman ; all these may pafs By ...
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... sweet , Which to defend is harder than to get , And ought not be profan'd on either part , For though ' t is got by chance ' t is kept by art . ELEGY XVIII . WHOEVER loves , if he do not propofe The right true end of love , he's one ...
... sweet , Which to defend is harder than to get , And ought not be profan'd on either part , For though ' t is got by chance ' t is kept by art . ELEGY XVIII . WHOEVER loves , if he do not propofe The right true end of love , he's one ...
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... sweet- ness in rhyming , second to none . " He complains , however , in his dedication of Philotas , that , notwithstanding the fun - fhine of Court favour , and the joint applauses of almost all the great writers of his time , he had ...
... sweet- ness in rhyming , second to none . " He complains , however , in his dedication of Philotas , that , notwithstanding the fun - fhine of Court favour , and the joint applauses of almost all the great writers of his time , he had ...
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... ( Sweet lady ) in the thing fhe held fo dear : For , nearer come , she finds she had miftook , And him the mark'd was Henry Bolingbroke . LXXI . Then envy takes the place in her sweet eyes , Where forrow had prepar'd herself a feat ; nd ...
... ( Sweet lady ) in the thing fhe held fo dear : For , nearer come , she finds she had miftook , And him the mark'd was Henry Bolingbroke . LXXI . Then envy takes the place in her sweet eyes , Where forrow had prepar'd herself a feat ; nd ...
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... Sweet lady ! And again he stays . Th ' excess of joy and forrow both affords Affliction none , or but poor niggard words . XCI . She that was come with a refolved heart , And with a mouth full ftor'd , with words well chofe ; Thinking ...
... Sweet lady ! And again he stays . Th ' excess of joy and forrow both affords Affliction none , or but poor niggard words . XCI . She that was come with a refolved heart , And with a mouth full ftor'd , with words well chofe ; Thinking ...
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