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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... kind of creature I could most desire , To honor , serve , and love ; as poets use . I meant to make her fair , and free , and wise , Of greatest blood , and yet more good than great ; I meant the day - star should not brighter rise ...
... kind of creature I could most desire , To honor , serve , and love ; as poets use . I meant to make her fair , and free , and wise , Of greatest blood , and yet more good than great ; I meant the day - star should not brighter rise ...
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... kind , and scumm'd the bullion dross : A third as soon had form'd within the ground A various mould , and from the boiling cells , By strange conveyance , fill'd each hollow nook ; As in an organ , from one blast of wind , To many a row ...
... kind , and scumm'd the bullion dross : A third as soon had form'd within the ground A various mould , and from the boiling cells , By strange conveyance , fill'd each hollow nook ; As in an organ , from one blast of wind , To many a row ...
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... kind for sight , smell , taste ; And all amid them stood the tree of life , High eminent , blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold ; and next to life , Our death , the tree of knowledge , grew fast by , Knowledge of good , bought ...
... kind for sight , smell , taste ; And all amid them stood the tree of life , High eminent , blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold ; and next to life , Our death , the tree of knowledge , grew fast by , Knowledge of good , bought ...
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... kind , Whose seed is in herself upon the Earth . ' Their office in the firmament of Heaven , To give light on the Earth ; ' and it was so . And God made two great lights , great for their use To Man , the greater to have rule by day ...
... kind , Whose seed is in herself upon the Earth . ' Their office in the firmament of Heaven , To give light on the Earth ; ' and it was so . And God made two great lights , great for their use To Man , the greater to have rule by day ...
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... kind , Cattle , and creeping things , and beast of the Earth , Each in their kind . ' The Earth obey'd , and straight Opening her fertile womb teem'd at a birth Innumerous living creatures ; perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown out of ...
... kind , Cattle , and creeping things , and beast of the Earth , Each in their kind . ' The Earth obey'd , and straight Opening her fertile womb teem'd at a birth Innumerous living creatures ; perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown out of ...
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