Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... cheek , And in the midst was set a circling rose ; Whose sweet aspect would force Narcissus seek New liveries , and fresher colours choose PHINEAS AND GILES FLETCHER . 161 To deck his beauteous 160 PHINEAS AND GILES FLETCHER .
... cheek , And in the midst was set a circling rose ; Whose sweet aspect would force Narcissus seek New liveries , and fresher colours choose PHINEAS AND GILES FLETCHER . 161 To deck his beauteous 160 PHINEAS AND GILES FLETCHER .
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... cheek be ready with a blush Modest as Morning , when she coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus . ' Ulysses , urging Achilles to shew himself in the field , says , - No man is the lord of any thing , Till he communicate his parts to others ...
... cheek be ready with a blush Modest as Morning , when she coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus . ' Ulysses , urging Achilles to shew himself in the field , says , - No man is the lord of any thing , Till he communicate his parts to others ...
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... cheek lies under , Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss ; Who , therefore angry , seems to part in sunder , Swelling on either side to want his bliss ; Between whose hills her head entombed is : Where , like a virtuous monument , she ...
... cheek lies under , Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss ; Who , therefore angry , seems to part in sunder , Swelling on either side to want his bliss ; Between whose hills her head entombed is : Where , like a virtuous monument , she ...
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... cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks , But bears it out even to the edge of doom . If this be error , and upon me prov'd , I never writ , nor no man ever lov'd . O NEVER say ...
... cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks , But bears it out even to the edge of doom . If this be error , and upon me prov'd , I never writ , nor no man ever lov'd . O NEVER say ...
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... cheeks were like the roses red , But not a word she said ; With that the shepherd ' gan to frown , He threw his pretty pipes adown , And on the ground him laid . Saith she , I may not stay till night , And leave my summer hall undight ...
... cheeks were like the roses red , But not a word she said ; With that the shepherd ' gan to frown , He threw his pretty pipes adown , And on the ground him laid . Saith she , I may not stay till night , And leave my summer hall undight ...
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