Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2J. Nichol, 1860 |
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Page vii
... things A Distempered Fancy Soul compared to a Lantern WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE • Argalia taken Prisoner by the Turks HENRY VAUGHAN On a Charnel - house On Gombauld's ' Endymion ' Apostrophe to Fletcher the Dramatist Picture of the Town The ...
... things A Distempered Fancy Soul compared to a Lantern WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE • Argalia taken Prisoner by the Turks HENRY VAUGHAN On a Charnel - house On Gombauld's ' Endymion ' Apostrophe to Fletcher the Dramatist Picture of the Town The ...
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... things : and since we find Time bend us toward death , let's in our mind Create new youth , and arm against the rude Assaults of age ; that no dull solitude • O ' the country dead our thoughts , nor busy care O ' the town make us to ...
... things : and since we find Time bend us toward death , let's in our mind Create new youth , and arm against the rude Assaults of age ; that no dull solitude • O ' the country dead our thoughts , nor busy care O ' the town make us to ...
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... things while they pursued their unabated speed ; —the spirit of satire , strong as death , and cruel as the grave , which became incarnate in Swift ; - Pope , with his minute and microscopic vision of human infirmi- ties , his polish ...
... things while they pursued their unabated speed ; —the spirit of satire , strong as death , and cruel as the grave , which became incarnate in Swift ; - Pope , with his minute and microscopic vision of human infirmi- ties , his polish ...
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... thing we call a kiss ? — 2. I shall resolve ye what it is : It is a creature , born and bred Between the lips , all cherry red ; By love and warm desires ' tis fed ; Chor . - And makes more soft the bridal bed : 2. It is an active flame ...
... thing we call a kiss ? — 2. I shall resolve ye what it is : It is a creature , born and bred Between the lips , all cherry red ; By love and warm desires ' tis fed ; Chor . - And makes more soft the bridal bed : 2. It is an active flame ...
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... things of greatest , so of meanest worth , Conceived with grief are , and with tears brought forth . ' TO BLOSSOMS . 1 Fair pledges of a fruitful tree 29 1550-1640 . ] HERRICK . THE LESS - KNOWN BRITISH POETS . To Primroses.
... things of greatest , so of meanest worth , Conceived with grief are , and with tears brought forth . ' TO BLOSSOMS . 1 Fair pledges of a fruitful tree 29 1550-1640 . ] HERRICK . THE LESS - KNOWN BRITISH POETS . To Primroses.
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