Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips, Sampson, 1857 |
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... twas fit Who conquer'd nature , should preside o'er wit . Horace still charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into sense : Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way . He who ...
... twas fit Who conquer'd nature , should preside o'er wit . Horace still charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into sense : Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way . He who ...
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... Twas he had summon'd to her silent bed The morning dream that hover'd o'er her head . A youth more glittering than a birth - night beau ( That e'en in slumber caused her check to glow ) Seem'd to her ear his winning lips to lay , And ...
... Twas he had summon'd to her silent bed The morning dream that hover'd o'er her head . A youth more glittering than a birth - night beau ( That e'en in slumber caused her check to glow ) Seem'd to her ear his winning lips to lay , And ...
Page 100
... Twas then , Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardour , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now unveil'd the toilet stands display'd , Each ...
... Twas then , Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardour , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now unveil'd the toilet stands display'd , Each ...
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... Twas this , the morning omens seem'd to tell ; Thrice from my trembling hand the patch - box fell : The tottering china shook without a wind , Nay , Poll sat mute , and Shock was most unkind ! A Sylph too warn'd me of the threats of ...
... Twas this , the morning omens seem'd to tell ; Thrice from my trembling hand the patch - box fell : The tottering china shook without a wind , Nay , Poll sat mute , and Shock was most unkind ! A Sylph too warn'd me of the threats of ...
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... twas not much to bid one kind adieu ; ( At least to feign was never hard to you ! ) Farewell , my Lesbian love , ' you might have said Or coldly thus , Farewell , oh Lesbian maid ! ' • No tear did you , no parting kiss receive , Nor ...
... twas not much to bid one kind adieu ; ( At least to feign was never hard to you ! ) Farewell , my Lesbian love , ' you might have said Or coldly thus , Farewell , oh Lesbian maid ! ' • No tear did you , no parting kiss receive , Nor ...
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