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... charms , sweet village ; sports like these , With sweet succession , taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed , These were thy charms - But all these charms are fled . Sweet smiling village ...
... charms , sweet village ; sports like these , With sweet succession , taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed , These were thy charms - But all these charms are fled . Sweet smiling village ...
Page 162
... charms are passed , for charms are frail , When time advances , and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress . Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest ...
... charms are passed , for charms are frail , When time advances , and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress . Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest ...
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... charm , Fire to thy eye and vigour to thy arm ; Then from our lofty hopes and longing eyes , Fate and thy virtues call'd ... charms , The untried youth first quits a father's arms ; - ' Oh ! be like him , ' the weeping sire shall say ...
... charm , Fire to thy eye and vigour to thy arm ; Then from our lofty hopes and longing eyes , Fate and thy virtues call'd ... charms , The untried youth first quits a father's arms ; - ' Oh ! be like him , ' the weeping sire shall say ...
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CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL Of dorset 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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