“The” Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Robert AndersonArch, 1795 |
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... virtue out , or look it dead ! ' Twas fure this bafilifk fent Temple thence , And though as fome ( ' tis faid ) for their defence Have worn a cafement o'er their skin , So he wore his within , Made up of virtue and transparent innocence ...
... virtue out , or look it dead ! ' Twas fure this bafilifk fent Temple thence , And though as fome ( ' tis faid ) for their defence Have worn a cafement o'er their skin , So he wore his within , Made up of virtue and transparent innocence ...
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... virtue in a maid , A virtue but at fecond - hand ; They blush , becaufe they understand . The Graces next would act their part , And show'd but little of their art ; Their work was half already done , The child with native beauty fhone ...
... virtue in a maid , A virtue but at fecond - hand ; They blush , becaufe they understand . The Graces next would act their part , And show'd but little of their art ; Their work was half already done , The child with native beauty fhone ...
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... virtue from within Send out a fmoothness o'er the skin : Your lectures could my fancy fix , And I can please at ... virtue brighter fhines , But my poetic vein declines ; My harp will foon in vain be ftrung , And all your virtues left ...
... virtue from within Send out a fmoothness o'er the skin : Your lectures could my fancy fix , And I can please at ... virtue brighter fhines , But my poetic vein declines ; My harp will foon in vain be ftrung , And all your virtues left ...
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... VIRTUE , Infcrib'd to Lord CARTERET , 1724 . " Gratior & pulchro veniens in corpore Virtus . " ONCE on a time , a righteous fage , Griev'd at the vices of the age , Applied to Jove with fervant prayer : " O Jove , if Virtue be so fair ...
... VIRTUE , Infcrib'd to Lord CARTERET , 1724 . " Gratior & pulchro veniens in corpore Virtus . " ONCE on a time , a righteous fage , Griev'd at the vices of the age , Applied to Jove with fervant prayer : " O Jove , if Virtue be so fair ...
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... Virtue is in least repute , And intereft the one purfuit ; Where right and wrong are bought and fold , Barter'd for beauty , and for gold ; Here Manly Virtue , even here , Pleas'd in the perfon of a peer , A peer ; a fcarcely - bearded ...
... Virtue is in least repute , And intereft the one purfuit ; Where right and wrong are bought and fold , Barter'd for beauty , and for gold ; Here Manly Virtue , even here , Pleas'd in the perfon of a peer , A peer ; a fcarcely - bearded ...
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