The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... rest her gay liv'ry flings , Int'rest that waves on party - coloured wings : Turned to the sun , she casts a thousand dyes , And , as she turns , the colours fall or rise . Others the siren sisters warble round , And empty heads console ...
... rest her gay liv'ry flings , Int'rest that waves on party - coloured wings : Turned to the sun , she casts a thousand dyes , And , as she turns , the colours fall or rise . Others the siren sisters warble round , And empty heads console ...
Page 211
... rest , Prudence ; and by Flatt'ry , Pride . 340 Now beauty falls betray'd , despis'd , distress'd , And hissing Infamy proclaims the rest . Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspence corrupt the stagnant mind ...
... rest , Prudence ; and by Flatt'ry , Pride . 340 Now beauty falls betray'd , despis'd , distress'd , And hissing Infamy proclaims the rest . Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspence corrupt the stagnant mind ...
Page 283
... rest . I am hungry and thirsty like him , but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest ; I am , like him , pained with want , but am not , like him , satis- fied with fulness . The intermediate hours are tedi- ous and gloomy ; I ...
... rest . I am hungry and thirsty like him , but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest ; I am , like him , pained with want , but am not , like him , satis- fied with fulness . The intermediate hours are tedi- ous and gloomy ; I ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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