The Works of the English Poets, Volume 53J. Rivington, 1779 - 344 pages |
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... human life , to endless fleep ! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought , To instruct our wandering thought ; Thus fhe dreffes green and gay , To difperfe our cares away . Ever charming , ever new , When will the landskip tire the view ! The ...
... human life , to endless fleep ! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought , To instruct our wandering thought ; Thus fhe dreffes green and gay , To difperfe our cares away . Ever charming , ever new , When will the landskip tire the view ! The ...
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... human skill : here , curious architect , If thou effay't , ambitious , to furpafs Palladius , Angelus , or British Jones , On thefe fair walls extend the certain fcale , And turn th ' inftructive compafs : careful mark * The Capitol ...
... human skill : here , curious architect , If thou effay't , ambitious , to furpafs Palladius , Angelus , or British Jones , On thefe fair walls extend the certain fcale , And turn th ' inftructive compafs : careful mark * The Capitol ...
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... human benefit : more late the reft ; At various times their turrets chanc'd to rife , When impious tyranny vouchfaf'd to smile . Behold by Tiber's flood , where modern Rome † Couches beneath the ruins : there of old With arms and ...
... human benefit : more late the reft ; At various times their turrets chanc'd to rife , When impious tyranny vouchfaf'd to smile . Behold by Tiber's flood , where modern Rome † Couches beneath the ruins : there of old With arms and ...
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... human - kind . Three nodding ifles remain ; the reft an heap Of fand and weeds ; her thrines , her radiant roofs , And columns proud , that from her spacious floor , As from a fhining fea , majeftic rofe An hundred foot aloft , like ...
... human - kind . Three nodding ifles remain ; the reft an heap Of fand and weeds ; her thrines , her radiant roofs , And columns proud , that from her spacious floor , As from a fhining fea , majeftic rofe An hundred foot aloft , like ...
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... human folly fleeps . - There is a mood , ( Ifing not to the vacant and the young ) There is a kindly mood of melancholy , That wings the foul , and points her to the fkies ; When tribulation cloaths the child of man , When age defcends ...
... human folly fleeps . - There is a mood , ( Ifing not to the vacant and the young ) There is a kindly mood of melancholy , That wings the foul , and points her to the fkies ; When tribulation cloaths the child of man , When age defcends ...
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