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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... dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; return , Sicilian Muse , And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells , and flowerets of a thousand hues . 71 Ye valleys low , where the mild whispers use Of shades , and ...
... dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; return , Sicilian Muse , And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells , and flowerets of a thousand hues . 71 Ye valleys low , where the mild whispers use Of shades , and ...
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... dread events that dog them both , Lest some ill - greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister . 345 Be barr'd that happiness , might we but hear The folded flocks penn'd in their wattled cotes , Or sound of pastoral reed ...
... dread events that dog them both , Lest some ill - greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister . 345 Be barr'd that happiness , might we but hear The folded flocks penn'd in their wattled cotes , Or sound of pastoral reed ...
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... dread , Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake ; Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were , or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of ...
... dread , Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake ; Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were , or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of ...
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... dreaded through the coast Of Palestine , in Gath and Ascalon , And Accaron and Gaza's frontier bounds . Him follow'd ... dread of death to flight or foul retreat : Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled ...
... dreaded through the coast Of Palestine , in Gath and Ascalon , And Accaron and Gaza's frontier bounds . Him follow'd ... dread of death to flight or foul retreat : Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled ...
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... dread commander : he , above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as ...
... dread commander : he , above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as ...
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