Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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John Aikin. Here's the spring - head of Pleasure's flood ; Where all the riches lie , that she Has coin'd and stamp'd ... pleasures see , Should hither throng to live like me , And so make a city here . FROM THE DAVIDEIS . AWAKE , awake ...
John Aikin. Here's the spring - head of Pleasure's flood ; Where all the riches lie , that she Has coin'd and stamp'd ... pleasures see , Should hither throng to live like me , And so make a city here . FROM THE DAVIDEIS . AWAKE , awake ...
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... pleasure , though in pleasure , solitary . What think'st thou then of me , and this my state ? Seem I to thee sufficiently possess'd Of happiness , or not ? who am alone From all eternity ; for none I know Second to me or like , equal ...
... pleasure , though in pleasure , solitary . What think'st thou then of me , and this my state ? Seem I to thee sufficiently possess'd Of happiness , or not ? who am alone From all eternity ; for none I know Second to me or like , equal ...
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... pleasure ; for which cause , Among the beasts no mate for thee was found . " To whom thus , half abash'd , Adam replied . " Neither her outside form'd so fair , nor aught In procreation common to all kinds , ( Though higher of the ...
... pleasure ; for which cause , Among the beasts no mate for thee was found . " To whom thus , half abash'd , Adam replied . " Neither her outside form'd so fair , nor aught In procreation common to all kinds , ( Though higher of the ...
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... pleasure took the serpent to behold This flowery plat , the sweet recess of Eve Thus early , thus alone : her heavenly form Angelic , but more soft , and feminine , Her graceful innocence , her every air Of gesture , or least action ...
... pleasure took the serpent to behold This flowery plat , the sweet recess of Eve Thus early , thus alone : her heavenly form Angelic , but more soft , and feminine , Her graceful innocence , her every air Of gesture , or least action ...
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... pleasure we have lost , while we abstain'd From this delightful fruit , nor known till now True relish , tasting ; if such pleasure be In things to us forbidd'n , it might be wish'd , For this one tree had been forbidden ten . But come ...
... pleasure we have lost , while we abstain'd From this delightful fruit , nor known till now True relish , tasting ; if such pleasure be In things to us forbidd'n , it might be wish'd , For this one tree had been forbidden ten . But come ...
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