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Found out the trick that Venus play'd , The goddess thus pronounc'd her doom : She shakes her helm , she knits her brows , When , lo ! Vanessa in her bloom 305 And , fir'd with indignation , vows , Advanc'd , like Atalanta's star ...
Found out the trick that Venus play'd , The goddess thus pronounc'd her doom : She shakes her helm , she knits her brows , When , lo ! Vanessa in her bloom 305 And , fir'd with indignation , vows , Advanc'd , like Atalanta's star ...
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The fame of the Scottish Homer came to its climax with the publication of his pastoral play , The Gentle Shepherd , in 1725 .. Ramsay had experimented before in pastoral poetry — in Richard and Sandy , a Pastoral on the Death of Mr.
The fame of the Scottish Homer came to its climax with the publication of his pastoral play , The Gentle Shepherd , in 1725 .. Ramsay had experimented before in pastoral poetry — in Richard and Sandy , a Pastoral on the Death of Mr.
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Meantime unnumber'd glittering streamlets play'd , And hurled everywhere their waters sheen ; That , as they bicker'd through the sunny glade , Though restless still themselves , a lulling murmur made . 25 IV 30 Join'd to the prattle of ...
Meantime unnumber'd glittering streamlets play'd , And hurled everywhere their waters sheen ; That , as they bicker'd through the sunny glade , Though restless still themselves , a lulling murmur made . 25 IV 30 Join'd to the prattle of ...
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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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appear arms bear beauty beneath breast breath charms dear death deep delight earth ev'ry eyes face fair fall fame fate fear feel fields fire give grace grave green hand happy head hear heart Heav'n hills hope hour John kind king land laws leave light live look Lord mind morn Muse Nature never night o'er once pain passion peace plain play pleasure poem poet poor Pope pow'r praise pride reason rest rise round scene seen sense shade shine side sing sleep smiles soft song soon soul sound spring stand stream sweet tears tell thee things thou thought Till true truth turn verse virtue voice waves wild winds youth
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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