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... Dream 201 The Nightingale and Glow - worm 203 On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage 205 The Pineapple and the Bee 206 Horace , Book II . Ode 10 . 208 A Reflection on the foregoing Ode 210 , The Lily and the Rose 211- Idem Latine ...
... Dream 201 The Nightingale and Glow - worm 203 On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage 205 The Pineapple and the Bee 206 Horace , Book II . Ode 10 . 208 A Reflection on the foregoing Ode 210 , The Lily and the Rose 211- Idem Latine ...
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... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares ; They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares ; They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
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... dream , The poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it ...
... dream , The poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it ...
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... dream ; Yours , real and pernicious in the extreme . What then ! -are appetites and lusts laid down , With the same ease that man puts on his gown ? Will Avarice and Concupiscence give place , Charm'd by the THE PROGRESS OF ERROUR . 23.
... dream ; Yours , real and pernicious in the extreme . What then ! -are appetites and lusts laid down , With the same ease that man puts on his gown ? Will Avarice and Concupiscence give place , Charm'd by the THE PROGRESS OF ERROUR . 23.
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... dream , Caught in a delicate soft silken net , ; By some lewd earl , or rakehell baronet : Ye pimps , who , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the closet of young innocence , And teach her , unexperienced yet and green , To ...
... dream , Caught in a delicate soft silken net , ; By some lewd earl , or rakehell baronet : Ye pimps , who , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the closet of young innocence , And teach her , unexperienced yet and green , To ...
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