Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin A. Hart, Carey & Hart, 1850 - 807 pages |
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... earth with odors , fruits , and flocks , Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable , But all to please and sate the curious taste ? And set to work millions of spinning worms , That in their green - shops weave the smooth - hair'd silk ...
... earth with odors , fruits , and flocks , Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable , But all to please and sate the curious taste ? And set to work millions of spinning worms , That in their green - shops weave the smooth - hair'd silk ...
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... earth's end , Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. THE ARGUMENT . 1020 The first Book proposes , first in brief , the whole subject , Man's disobedience , and the loss there- upon of Paradise wherein he was ...
... earth's end , Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. THE ARGUMENT . 1020 The first Book proposes , first in brief , the whole subject , Man's disobedience , and the loss there- upon of Paradise wherein he was ...
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... earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation , with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet , Built like a ... Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean race Beyond ...
... earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation , with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet , Built like a ... Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean race Beyond ...
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... Earth , wherein the just shall dwell , And after all their tribulations long , See golden days , fruitful of golden deeds , With joy and love triumphing , and fair truth . Then thou thy regal sceptre shalt lay by , tend , Wondering ...
... Earth , wherein the just shall dwell , And after all their tribulations long , See golden days , fruitful of golden deeds , With joy and love triumphing , and fair truth . Then thou thy regal sceptre shalt lay by , tend , Wondering ...
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... Earth By model , or by shading pencil , drawn . The stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw Angels ascending and descending , bands Of guardians bright , when he from Esau fled To Padan - Aram , in the field of Luz Dreaming by night under ...
... Earth By model , or by shading pencil , drawn . The stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw Angels ascending and descending , bands Of guardians bright , when he from Esau fled To Padan - Aram , in the field of Luz Dreaming by night under ...
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