The Works of the English Poets, Volume 53J. Rivington, 1779 - 344 pages |
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... dark hill , fteep and high , Holds and charms the wandering eye ! Deep are his feet in Towy's flood , His fides are cloath'd with waving wood , And ancient towers crown his brow , That caft an aweful look below ; Whofe ragged walls the ...
... dark hill , fteep and high , Holds and charms the wandering eye ! Deep are his feet in Towy's flood , His fides are cloath'd with waving wood , And ancient towers crown his brow , That caft an aweful look below ; Whofe ragged walls the ...
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... darkness from the vaft profound Of ifles and halls , within the mountain's womb . Nor these the nether works ; all these beneath , And all beneath the vales and hills around , Extend the cavern'd fewers , maffy , firm , As the Sibylline ...
... darkness from the vaft profound Of ifles and halls , within the mountain's womb . Nor these the nether works ; all these beneath , And all beneath the vales and hills around , Extend the cavern'd fewers , maffy , firm , As the Sibylline ...
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... dark tower Whofe execrable hand the city fir'd , And while the dreadful conflagration blaz'd , Play'd The tomb of Ceftius , partly within and partly without the walls . † The baths of Caracalla , a vaft ruin . ‡ Nero's . Play'd to the ...
... dark tower Whofe execrable hand the city fir'd , And while the dreadful conflagration blaz'd , Play'd The tomb of Ceftius , partly within and partly without the walls . † The baths of Caracalla , a vaft ruin . ‡ Nero's . Play'd to the ...
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... dark manure ; Which to the liquid element will yield A porous way , a paffage to the foc . Plough not fuch pastures : deep in spungy grass The oldest carpet is the warmest lair , And foundest ; in new herbage coughs are heard . Nor love ...
... dark manure ; Which to the liquid element will yield A porous way , a paffage to the foc . Plough not fuch pastures : deep in spungy grass The oldest carpet is the warmest lair , And foundest ; in new herbage coughs are heard . Nor love ...
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... dark Norwegian , with their choiceft fields , Dingles , and dells , by lofty fir embower'd , In vain the bleaters court . Alike they shun Libya's Libya's hot plains : what taste have they for groves 34 DYER'S POEMS .
... dark Norwegian , with their choiceft fields , Dingles , and dells , by lofty fir embower'd , In vain the bleaters court . Alike they shun Libya's Libya's hot plains : what taste have they for groves 34 DYER'S POEMS .
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