Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas TomkinsJ. Wallis, 1785 - 204 páginas |
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... blifs Did love on both beftow ! But blifs too mighty long to last , Where Fortune proves a foe . IX . His fifter , who , like Envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked fkill , Each darker art employ'd ...
... blifs Did love on both beftow ! But blifs too mighty long to last , Where Fortune proves a foe . IX . His fifter , who , like Envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked fkill , Each darker art employ'd ...
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... blifs . When Cloe tunes her liquid voice , Or tries foft mufic's art , By thee the founds melodious pierce , Like lightning to the heart . By thee the poet's charming lays Our various paffions move , Now fire the foul with rage , or ...
... blifs . When Cloe tunes her liquid voice , Or tries foft mufic's art , By thee the founds melodious pierce , Like lightning to the heart . By thee the poet's charming lays Our various paffions move , Now fire the foul with rage , or ...
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... , But , turning , trembles too . Far as diftrefs the foul can wound , ' Tis pain in each degree : ' Tis blifs but to a certain bound ; Beyond , is agony . Take then this treacherous fense of mine ; Which dooms SELECT POEMS . 47.
... , But , turning , trembles too . Far as diftrefs the foul can wound , ' Tis pain in each degree : ' Tis blifs but to a certain bound ; Beyond , is agony . Take then this treacherous fense of mine ; Which dooms SELECT POEMS . 47.
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... fhall ftill fucceed To nights of calm repose : O fairy elf ! but grant me this , This one kind comfort fend ; And so may never - fading blifs Thy flow'ry paths attend ! So may the glow - worm's glimm❜ring light Thy tiny 48 SELECT POEMS .
... fhall ftill fucceed To nights of calm repose : O fairy elf ! but grant me this , This one kind comfort fend ; And so may never - fading blifs Thy flow'ry paths attend ! So may the glow - worm's glimm❜ring light Thy tiny 48 SELECT POEMS .
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... the good man fuftain , And give him ease in poverty and pain . Who will not calmly bear ftern fortune's frown , That knows he foon shall gain a heav'nly crown ? Who does on fublunary blifs depend , That hopes a SELECT POEMS.
... the good man fuftain , And give him ease in poverty and pain . Who will not calmly bear ftern fortune's frown , That knows he foon shall gain a heav'nly crown ? Who does on fublunary blifs depend , That hopes a SELECT POEMS.
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