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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... spirit of Plato , to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a ...
... spirit of Plato , to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a ...
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... SPIRIT descends or enters . BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air , Above the smoke and stir of this dim ...
... SPIRIT descends or enters . BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air , Above the smoke and stir of this dim ...
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... spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence , That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize , And the brute Earth ... SPIRIT . 819 What , have you let the false enchanter ' scape ? O ye mistook , ye should have snatch'd his wand , And ...
... spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence , That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize , And the brute Earth ... SPIRIT . 819 What , have you let the false enchanter ' scape ? O ye mistook , ye should have snatch'd his wand , And ...
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... Spirit , with the two Brothers , and the Lady . Mortals that would follow me , Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were , Spir . Back , shepherds , back ...
... Spirit , with the two Brothers , and the Lady . Mortals that would follow me , Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were , Spir . Back , shepherds , back ...
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... spirit remains Invincible , and vigor soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqueror ( whom I now Of force believe almighty , since no less Than such ...
... spirit remains Invincible , and vigor soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqueror ( whom I now Of force believe almighty , since no less Than such ...
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