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Stretch'd on the lawn his second hope survey , At once the chaser , and at once the prey : Lo Rufus , tugging at the deadly dart , Bleeds in the forest like a wounded hart . Succeeding monarchs heard the subjects ' cries , Nor saw ...
Stretch'd on the lawn his second hope survey , At once the chaser , and at once the prey : Lo Rufus , tugging at the deadly dart , Bleeds in the forest like a wounded hart . Succeeding monarchs heard the subjects ' cries , Nor saw ...
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Some demon stole my pen ( forgive the offence ) And once betrayed me into common sense : Else all my prose and verse were much the same ; This prose on stilts , that poetry fall'n lame . Did on the stage my fops appear confined ?
Some demon stole my pen ( forgive the offence ) And once betrayed me into common sense : Else all my prose and verse were much the same ; This prose on stilts , that poetry fall'n lame . Did on the stage my fops appear confined ?
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Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nurs'ry floor ; And where the gard'ner Robin , day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapped In scarlet ...
Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nurs'ry floor ; And where the gard'ner Robin , day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapped In scarlet ...
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Contents
CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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