The Works of the English Poets, Volume 53J. Rivington, 1779 - 344 pages |
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... vale ; As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round , unhappy fate ! Sooner or later , of all height , Withdraw their fummits from the skies , And leffen as the others rife : Still the profpect wider fpreads , Adds a thousand ...
... vale ; As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round , unhappy fate ! Sooner or later , of all height , Withdraw their fummits from the skies , And leffen as the others rife : Still the profpect wider fpreads , Adds a thousand ...
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... vale perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the fhepherd charms his fheep ; While the birds unbounded fly , And with mufick fill the sky , Now , ev'n now , my joys run high . Be full , ye courts ; be great who will ...
... vale perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the fhepherd charms his fheep ; While the birds unbounded fly , And with mufick fill the sky , Now , ev'n now , my joys run high . Be full , ye courts ; be great who will ...
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... vale of Arno purpled with the vine , Beyond the Umbrian and Etrufcan hills , To Latium's wide champain , forlorn and waste , Where yellow Tiber his neglected wave Mournfully rolls . Yet once again , my Mufe , Yet once again , and foar a ...
... vale of Arno purpled with the vine , Beyond the Umbrian and Etrufcan hills , To Latium's wide champain , forlorn and waste , Where yellow Tiber his neglected wave Mournfully rolls . Yet once again , my Mufe , Yet once again , and foar a ...
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... vale 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 ...
... vale 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 ...
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... vale , of every beauteoustone , Pile in the roseat air with fond expence : Through filver channels glide the vagrant waves , And fall on filver beds crystalline down , Melodious murmuring ; while luxury Over their naked limbs with ...
... vale , of every beauteoustone , Pile in the roseat air with fond expence : Through filver channels glide the vagrant waves , And fall on filver beds crystalline down , Melodious murmuring ; while luxury Over their naked limbs with ...
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