The Works of the English Poets, Volume 53J. Rivington, 1779 - 344 pages |
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... beneath my head ; While ftray'd my eyes o'er Towÿ's flood , Over mead , and over wood , From houfe to houfe , from hill to hill , * Till Contemplation had her fill . About his chequer'd fides I wind , And leave his brooks and meads ...
... beneath my head ; While ftray'd my eyes o'er Towÿ's flood , Over mead , and over wood , From houfe to houfe , from hill to hill , * Till Contemplation had her fill . About his chequer'd fides I wind , And leave his brooks and meads ...
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... beneath the fight . Old caftles on the cliffs arife , Proudly towering in the skies ! Rufhing from the woods , the fpires . Seem from hence afcending fires ! Half his beams Apollo fheds On the yellow mountain - heads ! Gilds the fleeces ...
... beneath the fight . Old caftles on the cliffs arife , Proudly towering in the skies ! Rufhing from the woods , the fpires . Seem from hence afcending fires ! Half his beams Apollo fheds On the yellow mountain - heads ! Gilds the fleeces ...
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... beneath , And all beneath the vales and hills around , Extend the cavern'd fewers , maffy , firm , As the Sibylline grot befide the dead Lake of Avernus ; such the fewers huge , Whither the great Tarquinian genius dooms Each wave impure ...
... beneath , And all beneath the vales and hills around , Extend the cavern'd fewers , maffy , firm , As the Sibylline grot befide the dead Lake of Avernus ; such the fewers huge , Whither the great Tarquinian genius dooms Each wave impure ...
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... beneath . Along the windings of the Mufe's ftream , Lucid Ilyffus weeps her filent fchools , And groves , unvifited by bard or fage . Amid the towery ruins , huge , fupreme , Th ' enormous amphitheatre behold , Mountainous pile ! o'er ...
... beneath . Along the windings of the Mufe's ftream , Lucid Ilyffus weeps her filent fchools , And groves , unvifited by bard or fage . Amid the towery ruins , huge , fupreme , Th ' enormous amphitheatre behold , Mountainous pile ! o'er ...
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... Beneath an urn of fome lamented nymph ) Haply compos'd ; the urn with foliage curl'd Thinly conceal'd , the chapiter inform'd . See the tall obelisks from Memphis old , One ftone enormous each , or Thebes convey'd ; Like Albion's spires ...
... Beneath an urn of fome lamented nymph ) Haply compos'd ; the urn with foliage curl'd Thinly conceal'd , the chapiter inform'd . See the tall obelisks from Memphis old , One ftone enormous each , or Thebes convey'd ; Like Albion's spires ...
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