Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical NoticesThomas Wardle, 1846 - 807 pages |
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... race . And in this true delight , These unbought sports , this happy state , I would not fear , nor wish , my fate ; But boldly say each night , To - morrow let my sun his beams display , Or in clouds hide them ; I have liv'd to - day ...
... race . And in this true delight , These unbought sports , this happy state , I would not fear , nor wish , my fate ; But boldly say each night , To - morrow let my sun his beams display , Or in clouds hide them ; I have liv'd to - day ...
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... race is finish'd when begun ; Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of Earth shalt reach as soon as he . Thou in the Moon's bright chariot , proud and gay , Dost thy bright wood of stars survey ! And all the year dost ...
... race is finish'd when begun ; Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of Earth shalt reach as soon as he . Thou in the Moon's bright chariot , proud and gay , Dost thy bright wood of stars survey ! And all the year dost ...
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... race call'd Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less In power and excellence , but favor'd more Of him who rules above ; so was his will Pronounc'd among the gods , and by an oath , That shook Heaven's whole ...
... race call'd Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less In power and excellence , but favor'd more Of him who rules above ; so was his will Pronounc'd among the gods , and by an oath , That shook Heaven's whole ...
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... race . ' What could I do , But follow straight , invisibly thus led ? Till I espied thee , fair indeed and tall , Under a platane ; yet methought less fair , Less winning soft , less amiably mild , Than that smooth watery image : back I ...
... race . ' What could I do , But follow straight , invisibly thus led ? Till I espied thee , fair indeed and tall , Under a platane ; yet methought less fair , Less winning soft , less amiably mild , Than that smooth watery image : back I ...
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... race been hid ; The discord which befell , and war in Heaven Among the angelic powers , and the deep fall Of those too high aspiring , who rebell'd With Satan ; he who envies now thy state , Who now is plotting how he may seduce Thee ...
... race been hid ; The discord which befell , and war in Heaven Among the angelic powers , and the deep fall Of those too high aspiring , who rebell'd With Satan ; he who envies now thy state , Who now is plotting how he may seduce Thee ...
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