Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent AuthorsJoseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
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... beauty . Music and dances absorbed much of his attention . So long as the faces around him showed signs of happiness , he did not seriously afflict himself because he was in exile , and a little out at elbows . Such was the " Banished ...
... beauty . Music and dances absorbed much of his attention . So long as the faces around him showed signs of happiness , he did not seriously afflict himself because he was in exile , and a little out at elbows . Such was the " Banished ...
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... Beauty , some few pieces where the taint of foulness now awakens our disgust , we might feel wonder at the contrast in the same volume , and the taste of the original collector , were not such feel- ing of wonder long ago exhausted ...
... Beauty , some few pieces where the taint of foulness now awakens our disgust , we might feel wonder at the contrast in the same volume , and the taste of the original collector , were not such feel- ing of wonder long ago exhausted ...
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... beauty were men unto whom Fortune seldom offered gifts , as though it were she envied them for having better treasure in their birthright of imagination . The dull , harsh , and uncongenial time intensified their visions : even as ...
... beauty were men unto whom Fortune seldom offered gifts , as though it were she envied them for having better treasure in their birthright of imagination . The dull , harsh , and uncongenial time intensified their visions : even as ...
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... beauty of my Mistris shrouds , To look after another Star ? Those to Cynthia servants are ; May the stars when I doe sue , In their anger shoot me through ; Shall I shrink at stormes of rain , Or be driven back again , Or ignoble like a ...
... beauty of my Mistris shrouds , To look after another Star ? Those to Cynthia servants are ; May the stars when I doe sue , In their anger shoot me through ; Shall I shrink at stormes of rain , Or be driven back again , Or ignoble like a ...
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... beauty that had been devis'd By Nature , was by her parents sacrific'd Up to this Monster , upon whom to try , If as increase , he could , too , multiply . Oh how I tremble lest the tender maid Should dye like a young infant over - laid ...
... beauty that had been devis'd By Nature , was by her parents sacrific'd Up to this Monster , upon whom to try , If as increase , he could , too , multiply . Oh how I tremble lest the tender maid Should dye like a young infant over - laid ...
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