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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... fights , Worse than his tigers , he delights ; In all our Heaven I think there be No such ill - natur'd god as he . Thou pretendest , traitorous Wine ! To be the Muses ' friend and mine : With love and wit thou dost begin , False fires ...
... fights , Worse than his tigers , he delights ; In all our Heaven I think there be No such ill - natur'd god as he . Thou pretendest , traitorous Wine ! To be the Muses ' friend and mine : With love and wit thou dost begin , False fires ...
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... fight , Hath been achiev'd of merit ; yet this loss , Thus far at least recover'd , hath much more Establish'd in a safe unenvied throne , Yielded with full consent . The happier state In Heaven , which follows dignity , might draw Envy ...
... fight , Hath been achiev'd of merit ; yet this loss , Thus far at least recover'd , hath much more Establish'd in a safe unenvied throne , Yielded with full consent . The happier state In Heaven , which follows dignity , might draw Envy ...
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... fight , Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds ; Into this wild abyss the wary fiend And by command of Heaven's all - powerful King , Stood on the brink of Hell , and look'd a while . I keep , by ...
... fight , Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds ; Into this wild abyss the wary fiend And by command of Heaven's all - powerful King , Stood on the brink of Hell , and look'd a while . I keep , by ...
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... fighting elements , on all sides round Environ'd , wins his way ; harder beset And more endanger'd , than when Argo pass'd Through Bosporus , betwixt the justling rocks ! Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunn'd Charybdis , and by the ...
... fighting elements , on all sides round Environ'd , wins his way ; harder beset And more endanger'd , than when Argo pass'd Through Bosporus , betwixt the justling rocks ! Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunn'd Charybdis , and by the ...
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... fight . " To whom with stern regard thus Gabriel spake . " Why hast thou , Satan , broke the bounds prescrib'd To thy transgressions , and disturb'd the charge Of others , who approve not to transgress By thy example , but have power ...
... fight . " To whom with stern regard thus Gabriel spake . " Why hast thou , Satan , broke the bounds prescrib'd To thy transgressions , and disturb'd the charge Of others , who approve not to transgress By thy example , but have power ...
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