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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LANDSCAPE, WITH DAMSELS CONVEYING A WOUNDED SQUIRE ON HIS HORSE. Character, Select Southern Elegance, with an intimation of fine Architecture; Painter, Claude. (Yet mighty woods hardly belong to him.) Into that forest far they thence him led, Where was their dwelling, in a pleasantlade With mountains round about environed; And mighty woods which did the valley shade And like a stately theatre it made, Spreading itself into a spacious plain; And in the midst a little river play'd Amongst the pumy stones, which seem'd to plain With gentle murmur, that his course they did restrain. Beside the same a dainty place there lay, Planted with myrtle trees and laurels green, In which the birds sung many a lovely lay Of God's high praise and of their sweet love's teen, As it an earthly paradise had been; In whose enclosed shadows there was pight A fair pavilion, scarcely to be seen. THE NYMPHS AND GRACES DANCING TO A SHEPHERD'S PIPE; Or, APOTHEOSIS OF A POET'S MISTRESS. Character, Nakedness without Impudency; Multitudinous and Innocent Delight; Exaltation of the principal Person from Circumstances rather than her own Ideality; Painter, Albano. Unto this place whereas the elfin knight Approach'd, him seemed that the merry sound Of a shrill pipe he playing heard on height, / And many feet fast thumping the hollow ground; That through the woods their echo did rehound; He nigher drew, to weet what might it be; There he a troop of ladies dancing found Full merrily, and making gladful glee, And in the midst a shepherd piping he did see. He durst not enter into the open green, For dread of them unwares to be descry'd, For breaking off their dance, if he were seen; But in the covert of the wood did bide, Beheld of all, yet of them unespied: Ther...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217492904 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217492908 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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