The Works of the English Poets, Volume 53J. Rivington, 1779 - 344 pages |
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... ruins , mofs , and weeds ; While , ever and anon , there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls . Yet time has feen , that lifts the low , And level lays the lofty brow , Has feen this broken pile compleat , Big with the vanity of ...
... ruins , mofs , and weeds ; While , ever and anon , there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls . Yet time has feen , that lifts the low , And level lays the lofty brow , Has feen this broken pile compleat , Big with the vanity of ...
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... ruin'd tower , The naked rock , the fhady bower ; The town and village , dome and farm , Each give each a double charm , As pearls upon an Æthiop's arm . See on the mountain's fouthern fide , Where the profpect opens wide , Where the ...
... ruin'd tower , The naked rock , the fhady bower ; The town and village , dome and farm , Each give each a double charm , As pearls upon an Æthiop's arm . See on the mountain's fouthern fide , Where the profpect opens wide , Where the ...
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... Pleasure , clofe ally'd , Ever by each other's fide : And often , by the murmuring rill , Hears the thrush , while all is ftill , Within the groves of Grongar Hill . THE THE RUINS OF ROME . " Afpice murorum moles , DYER'S POEM S.
... Pleasure , clofe ally'd , Ever by each other's fide : And often , by the murmuring rill , Hears the thrush , while all is ftill , Within the groves of Grongar Hill . THE THE RUINS OF ROME . " Afpice murorum moles , DYER'S POEM S.
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John Dyer, David Mallet Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). THE RUINS OF ROME . " Afpice murorum moles , præruptaque faxa , " Obrutaque horrenti vesta theatra fitu : " Hæc funt Roma ... ruins in the purer air Towering aloft [ 7 ]
John Dyer, David Mallet Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). THE RUINS OF ROME . " Afpice murorum moles , præruptaque faxa , " Obrutaque horrenti vesta theatra fitu : " Hæc funt Roma ... ruins in the purer air Towering aloft [ 7 ]
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... ruins in the purer air Towering aloft , upon the glittering plain , Like broken rocks , a vast circumference ; Rent palaces , crush'd columns , rifled moles , Fanes roll'd on fanes , and tombs on buried tombs . Deep lies in duft the ...
... ruins in the purer air Towering aloft , upon the glittering plain , Like broken rocks , a vast circumference ; Rent palaces , crush'd columns , rifled moles , Fanes roll'd on fanes , and tombs on buried tombs . Deep lies in duft the ...
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