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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... peace , high triumphs hold . With store of ladies , whose bright eyes Rain influence , and judge the prize Of wit , or arms , while both contend To win her grace , whom all commend . There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe , with ...
... peace , high triumphs hold . With store of ladies , whose bright eyes Rain influence , and judge the prize Of wit , or arms , while both contend To win her grace , whom all commend . There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe , with ...
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... peaceful hermitage , The hairy gown and mossy cell , Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heaven doth ... peace be to my sable shroud . 10 20 For we were nurs'd upon the self - same hill , Fed the same flock , by fountain ...
... peaceful hermitage , The hairy gown and mossy cell , Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heaven doth ... peace be to my sable shroud . 10 20 For we were nurs'd upon the self - same hill , Fed the same flock , by fountain ...
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... Peace , brother : be not over - exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : For grant they be so , while they rest unknown , What need a man forestall his date of grief , And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or , if they be ...
... Peace , brother : be not over - exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : For grant they be so , while they rest unknown , What need a man forestall his date of grief , And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or , if they be ...
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... peaceful sloth , Not peace and after him thus Mammon spake . " Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own right lost : him to unthrone we then May hope , when everlasting Fate shall yield To ...
... peaceful sloth , Not peace and after him thus Mammon spake . " Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own right lost : him to unthrone we then May hope , when everlasting Fate shall yield To ...
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... peace and war ? War hath determin'd us , and foil'd with loss Irreparable : terms of peace yet none But from the author of all ill , could spring So deep a malice , to confound the race Of mankind in one root , and Earth with Hell To ...
... peace and war ? War hath determin'd us , and foil'd with loss Irreparable : terms of peace yet none But from the author of all ill , could spring So deep a malice , to confound the race Of mankind in one root , and Earth with Hell To ...
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