The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith]. |
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T HE Elegy is a mournful and plaintive , but yet a sweet and engaging kind of
poem . It was first invented to bewail the death of a friend , and afterwards us'd to
express the complaints of lovers , or any other doleful and melancholy subject .
T HE Elegy is a mournful and plaintive , but yet a sweet and engaging kind of
poem . It was first invented to bewail the death of a friend , and afterwards us'd to
express the complaints of lovers , or any other doleful and melancholy subject .
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No friends complaint , no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy . pale ghost , or grac'd thy
mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd , By foreign hands thy
decent limbs compos'd . By foreign hands thy humble grave adornd , By ...
No friends complaint , no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy . pale ghost , or grac'd thy
mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd , By foreign hands thy
decent limbs compos'd . By foreign hands thy humble grave adornd , By ...
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Tis Colinet , indeed , in woeful plight . Thy cloudy look , why melting into tears ,
Unseemly , now the sky so bright appears ? Why in this mournful manner art thou
found , Unthankful lad , when all things smile around ? Or hear'ít not lark and ...
Tis Colinet , indeed , in woeful plight . Thy cloudy look , why melting into tears ,
Unseemly , now the sky so bright appears ? Why in this mournful manner art thou
found , Unthankful lad , when all things smile around ? Or hear'ít not lark and ...
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Refound ye hills , resound my mournful strain ! Of perjur'd Doris , dying I complain
: Here where the mountains , less'ning as they rise , Lose the low vales , and
steal into the skies ; While lab'ring oxen , spent with toil and heat , In their loose ...
Refound ye hills , resound my mournful strain ! Of perjur'd Doris , dying I complain
: Here where the mountains , less'ning as they rise , Lose the low vales , and
steal into the skies ; While lab'ring oxen , spent with toil and heat , In their loose ...
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The modeft virtues mingled in her eyes , Still on the ground dejected , darting all
Their humid beams into the blooming flowers : Or when the mournful tale her
mother told , Of what her faithless fortune promis'd once , Thrill'd in her thought ,
they ...
The modeft virtues mingled in her eyes , Still on the ground dejected , darting all
Their humid beams into the blooming flowers : Or when the mournful tale her
mother told , Of what her faithless fortune promis'd once , Thrill'd in her thought ,
they ...
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