Late Augustan PoetryPatricia Meyer Spacks |
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Page 170
... hope of endless fame , Intrusts his happiness to human kind , More false , more cruel than the seas and wind . " Toil on , dull croud , " in extacy , he cries , " For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I these transitory ...
... hope of endless fame , Intrusts his happiness to human kind , More false , more cruel than the seas and wind . " Toil on , dull croud , " in extacy , he cries , " For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I these transitory ...
Page 258
... hope the magic Girdle wear , At solemn Turney hung on high , The Wish of each love - darting Eye ; Lo ! to each other Nymph in turn applied , As if , in Air unseen , some hov'ring Hand , Some chaste and Angel - Friend to Virgin - Fame ...
... hope the magic Girdle wear , At solemn Turney hung on high , The Wish of each love - darting Eye ; Lo ! to each other Nymph in turn applied , As if , in Air unseen , some hov'ring Hand , Some chaste and Angel - Friend to Virgin - Fame ...
Page 270
... Hope , with Eyes so fair , What was thy delightful Measure ? Still it whisper'd promis'd Pleasure , And bad the lovely Scenes at distance hail ! Still would Her Touch the Strain prolong , And from the Rocks , the Woods , the Vale , She ...
... Hope , with Eyes so fair , What was thy delightful Measure ? Still it whisper'd promis'd Pleasure , And bad the lovely Scenes at distance hail ! Still would Her Touch the Strain prolong , And from the Rocks , the Woods , the Vale , She ...
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