The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... length of time , as taking up seven years at leaft ; but Ariftotle has left undecided the duration of the action ; which yet is eafily reduced into the com- pafs of a year , by a narration of what preceded the re- turn turn of Palamon ...
... length of time , as taking up seven years at leaft ; but Ariftotle has left undecided the duration of the action ; which yet is eafily reduced into the com- pafs of a year , by a narration of what preceded the re- turn turn of Palamon ...
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... length of ages , she returns , Reftor'd in you , and the same place adorns ; Or you perform her office in the sphere , Born of her blood , and make a new platonic year . O true Plantagenet , O race divine , ( For beauty still is fatal ...
... length of ages , she returns , Reftor'd in you , and the same place adorns ; Or you perform her office in the sphere , Born of her blood , and make a new platonic year . O true Plantagenet , O race divine , ( For beauty still is fatal ...
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... length To tire your patience , and to wafte my ftrength ; And trivial accidents fhall be forborn , That others may have time to take their turn ; As was at first enjoin'd us by mine host : That he whofe tale is beft , and pleases moft ...
... length To tire your patience , and to wafte my ftrength ; And trivial accidents fhall be forborn , That others may have time to take their turn ; As was at first enjoin'd us by mine host : That he whofe tale is beft , and pleases moft ...
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... length of She caft us headlong from our high estate , And here in hope of thy return we wait : And long have waited in the temple nigh , Built to the gracious goddess Clemency . years , But reverence thou the power whofe name it bears ...
... length of She caft us headlong from our high estate , And here in hope of thy return we wait : And long have waited in the temple nigh , Built to the gracious goddess Clemency . years , But reverence thou the power whofe name it bears ...
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... length of hair : A ribband did the braided treffes bind , The reft was loofe , and wanton'd in the wind : Aurora had but newly chas'd the night , And purpled o'er the sky with blufhing light , When to the garden walk fhe took her way ...
... length of hair : A ribband did the braided treffes bind , The reft was loofe , and wanton'd in the wind : Aurora had but newly chas'd the night , And purpled o'er the sky with blufhing light , When to the garden walk fhe took her way ...
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