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For if the heav'nly folks should know That modern love is no such thing These pleadings in the courts below , As what those ancient poets sing : That mortals here disdain to love , A fire celestial , chaste , refin'd , She ne'er could ...
For if the heav'nly folks should know That modern love is no such thing These pleadings in the courts below , As what those ancient poets sing : That mortals here disdain to love , A fire celestial , chaste , refin'd , She ne'er could ...
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355 360 365 370 375 But hark ! distress with screaming voice draws nigh'r , And wakes the slumb'ring street with cries of fire . At first a glowing red enwraps the skies , And borne by winds the scatt'ring sparks arise ; From beam to ...
355 360 365 370 375 But hark ! distress with screaming voice draws nigh'r , And wakes the slumb'ring street with cries of fire . At first a glowing red enwraps the skies , And borne by winds the scatt'ring sparks arise ; From beam to ...
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2 Kindle , mend . and nowt 11 hate wissen'd 12 strae , 13 And frisking to the fields they gae ; 3 Fire . 4 Bogs . 5 Stars . 8 Daisies . 9 Larks . 10 Warped . 11 Cattle . 12 Withered . 18 Straw . 6 Shut , fasten .
2 Kindle , mend . and nowt 11 hate wissen'd 12 strae , 13 And frisking to the fields they gae ; 3 Fire . 4 Bogs . 5 Stars . 8 Daisies . 9 Larks . 10 Warped . 11 Cattle . 12 Withered . 18 Straw . 6 Shut , fasten .
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Contents
MATTHEW PRIOR I | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
Alma or The Progress of The Mind Canto I | 15 |
Copyright | |
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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 | 2 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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