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... Lover , a Comedy . - M . Look . Glass . Muses ' Looking Glass , a Drama . RITSON , Joseph , 1752-1803 . ROCHESTER , Earl of ( John Wilmot ) , 1647-1680 . ROGERS , Samuel , 1762-1855 . P. M. Pleasures of Memory , a Poem . ROSCOE ...
... Lover , a Comedy . - M . Look . Glass . Muses ' Looking Glass , a Drama . RITSON , Joseph , 1752-1803 . ROCHESTER , Earl of ( John Wilmot ) , 1647-1680 . ROGERS , Samuel , 1762-1855 . P. M. Pleasures of Memory , a Poem . ROSCOE ...
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... lover's absent hours , More tedious than the dial eight score times ? O weary reckoning ! It so falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it ; but , being lacked and lost , Why then we rack * the value . Sh ...
... lover's absent hours , More tedious than the dial eight score times ? O weary reckoning ! It so falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it ; but , being lacked and lost , Why then we rack * the value . Sh ...
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... lover yet ' Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! Ye flowers that droop , forsaken by the spring ; Ye birds that , left by summer , cease to sing ; Ye trees that fade , when autumn heats remove , Say , is not absence death to those ...
... lover yet ' Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! Ye flowers that droop , forsaken by the spring ; Ye birds that , left by summer , cease to sing ; Ye trees that fade , when autumn heats remove , Say , is not absence death to those ...
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... lovers part - expressive looks , and eyes Tender and tearful - many a fond adieu , And many a call the sorrow to renew . Adieu , adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The night - winds sigh , the breakers roar , And ...
... lovers part - expressive looks , and eyes Tender and tearful - many a fond adieu , And many a call the sorrow to renew . Adieu , adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The night - winds sigh , the breakers roar , And ...
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... lover , Fades in his eye , and palls upon the sense Nature in various moulds has beauty cast , And form'd the feature for each different taste : This sighs for golden locks and azure eyes ; That , for the gloss of sable tresses dies ...
... lover , Fades in his eye , and palls upon the sense Nature in various moulds has beauty cast , And form'd the feature for each different taste : This sighs for golden locks and azure eyes ; That , for the gloss of sable tresses dies ...
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