Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry: Vol. VI.John Bell, 1789 - 191 páginas |
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... sweets of Grecian store Did e'er the Attic bee provide , That could a purer flavor yield , Than yields the comb this hive contains , Though cull'd from no Hesperian field , But the wild growth of Britain's plains . LONDON : PRINTED BY ...
... sweets of Grecian store Did e'er the Attic bee provide , That could a purer flavor yield , Than yields the comb this hive contains , Though cull'd from no Hesperian field , But the wild growth of Britain's plains . LONDON : PRINTED BY ...
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... sweet surprizę Assembled beauties strike our ravish'd eyes , Such as in Lely's melting colors shine , Or spring , great Kneller ! from a hand like thine , On all with pleasing awe at once we gaze , And , lost in wonder , know not which ...
... sweet surprizę Assembled beauties strike our ravish'd eyes , Such as in Lely's melting colors shine , Or spring , great Kneller ! from a hand like thine , On all with pleasing awe at once we gaze , And , lost in wonder , know not which ...
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... sweet sounds the bordering forest rings For sportive Echo catches , as she sings , Each falling accent , studious to prolong The warbled notes of Rowe's ecstatic song . Old Avon pleas'd his reedy forehead rears , And polish'd Orrery ...
... sweet sounds the bordering forest rings For sportive Echo catches , as she sings , Each falling accent , studious to prolong The warbled notes of Rowe's ecstatic song . Old Avon pleas'd his reedy forehead rears , And polish'd Orrery ...
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... Sweet Philomela trills her mellow lays , We to the natives of the sultry line Their boasted race of parrots pleas'd resign : For tho ' on citron boughs they proudly glow With all the colors of the watery bow , Yet thro ' the grove harsh ...
... Sweet Philomela trills her mellow lays , We to the natives of the sultry line Their boasted race of parrots pleas'd resign : For tho ' on citron boughs they proudly glow With all the colors of the watery bow , Yet thro ' the grove harsh ...
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... Sweet as the darkling Philomel of May . Haste , haste , ye Nine , and hear a sister sing , The charms of Cynthia , and the joys of spring : See ! night's pale goddess with a grateful beam Paints her lov'd image in the shadowy stream ...
... Sweet as the darkling Philomel of May . Haste , haste , ye Nine , and hear a sister sing , The charms of Cynthia , and the joys of spring : See ! night's pale goddess with a grateful beam Paints her lov'd image in the shadowy stream ...
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adorn ATHENIA bard beauty beauty's Behold beneath blest bliss bloom boast bosom bowers breast bright charms Chryseis Clarissa DEAN SWIFT delight divine e'er envy EPISTLE eyes fair FALSTAFF fam'd fame fate female flow'rs fond form'd Friendship GARRICK genius glow goddess grace grove Hail hand happy heart heaven herse honor inspire isle JOHN DUNCOMBE join'd LADY laurel lays living color lov'd lyre merit mind mirth mourn Muse Muse's Nature's ne'er numbers Nymph o'er Orinda paint Pindus plain Plato pleas'd pleasure polish'd pow'r pride Queen rapture reign RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE rise rude sacred scene Scythian sense shade SHAKSPERE shine sing sister smiles soft song soul strains sung swain sweet taste taught tears thee thine thou thought thro throne truth tuneful verse virtue's virtues warbling WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Winchelsea wisdom's wonder youth ΤΟ
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