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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... beasts or common people , die , Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great , by being born , are grown ; Their mothers ' labor , not their own . In this scale gold , in th ' other fame does lie , The weight of that mounts this so ...
... beasts or common people , die , Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great , by being born , are grown ; Their mothers ' labor , not their own . In this scale gold , in th ' other fame does lie , The weight of that mounts this so ...
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... beasts , Creep , conscious , to their secret rests : Nature to thee does reverence pay , Ill omens and ill sights removes out of thy way . At thy appearance , Grief itself is said To shake his wings , and rouse his head : And cloudy ...
... beasts , Creep , conscious , to their secret rests : Nature to thee does reverence pay , Ill omens and ill sights removes out of thy way . At thy appearance , Grief itself is said To shake his wings , and rouse his head : And cloudy ...
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... beasts , but otherwise like men and women , their apparel glistering ; they come in making a riotous and unruly noise , with torches in their hands . COMUS The Star , that bids the shepherd fold , Now the top of Heaven doth hold ; And ...
... beasts , but otherwise like men and women , their apparel glistering ; they come in making a riotous and unruly noise , with torches in their hands . COMUS The Star , that bids the shepherd fold , Now the top of Heaven doth hold ; And ...
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... beast Fixes instead , unmoulding reason's mintage Character'd in the face : this have I learnt Tending my flocks hard by i ' the hilly crofts , That brow this bottom - glade ; whence night by night He and his monstrous rout are heard to ...
... beast Fixes instead , unmoulding reason's mintage Character'd in the face : this have I learnt Tending my flocks hard by i ' the hilly crofts , That brow this bottom - glade ; whence night by night He and his monstrous rout are heard to ...
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... beast Leviathan , which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night - founder'd skiff Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , With fixed ...
... beast Leviathan , which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night - founder'd skiff Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , With fixed ...
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