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Full o'er their heads the swelling bag he rent ... For this with fillets strain'd your tender head , And bravely bore the double loads of lead ? Gods ! shall the ravisher display your hair , While the fops envy , and the ladies stare !
Full o'er their heads the swelling bag he rent ... For this with fillets strain'd your tender head , And bravely bore the double loads of lead ? Gods ! shall the ravisher display your hair , While the fops envy , and the ladies stare !
Page 163
But by this lock , this sacred lock , I swear ( Which never more shall join its parted hair ; Which never more its honours shall renew , Clipp'd from the lovely head where late it grew ) , That while my nostrils draw the vital air ...
But by this lock , this sacred lock , I swear ( Which never more shall join its parted hair ; Which never more its honours shall renew , Clipp'd from the lovely head where late it grew ) , That while my nostrils draw the vital air ...
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When night first bids the twinkling stars appear , Or with her cloudy vest inwraps the air , Then swarms the busy street ; with caution tread , Where the shop - windows falling threat thy head ; Now lab'rers home return , and join their ...
When night first bids the twinkling stars appear , Or with her cloudy vest inwraps the air , Then swarms the busy street ; with caution tread , Where the shop - windows falling threat thy head ; Now lab'rers home return , and join their ...
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Contents
MATTHEW PRIOR I | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
Alma or The Progress of The Mind Canto I | 15 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century |
| Editor | Cecil Albert Moore |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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