The Works of the English Poets, Volume 56J. Rivington, 1779 - 371 pages |
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... fate again shall join her foul to thine , Who now , regardful of thy fame , erects The column to thy praise , and fooths her woe With pious honours to thy facred name Immortal . Lo ! where , towering in the height Of yon aërial pillar ...
... fate again shall join her foul to thine , Who now , regardful of thy fame , erects The column to thy praise , and fooths her woe With pious honours to thy facred name Immortal . Lo ! where , towering in the height Of yon aërial pillar ...
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... Those laws , their dreaded arms to Europe give . Whofe people ( vain in want , in bondage bleft ; Though plunder'd , gay ; induftrious , though oppreft ) With happy follies rife above their fate , The jeft With TO DR . AYS COUGH . 27.
... Those laws , their dreaded arms to Europe give . Whofe people ( vain in want , in bondage bleft ; Though plunder'd , gay ; induftrious , though oppreft ) With happy follies rife above their fate , The jeft With TO DR . AYS COUGH . 27.
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... fate , The jeft and envy of each wifer state . Yet here the Mufes deign'd a while to sport In the short fun - fhine of a favouring court : Here Boileau , ftrong in fenfe , and sharp in wit ,. Who , from the ancients , like the ancients ...
... fate , The jeft and envy of each wifer state . Yet here the Mufes deign'd a while to sport In the short fun - fhine of a favouring court : Here Boileau , ftrong in fenfe , and sharp in wit ,. Who , from the ancients , like the ancients ...
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... voice is heard of joy or love , But mournful filence faddens all the grove . Unhappy Italy ! whofe alter'd state Has felt the worst severity of fate : Not Not that barbarian hands her fafces broke , And bow'd 34 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
... voice is heard of joy or love , But mournful filence faddens all the grove . Unhappy Italy ! whofe alter'd state Has felt the worst severity of fate : Not Not that barbarian hands her fafces broke , And bow'd 34 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
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... both , from courts and all their state , Eager I fly , to prove Joys far above a Courtier's fate , Tranquillity and Love . See the Infcriptions in Mr. Weft's Poems . Ta TO MISS LUCY FORTESCUE . O NCE , by the LYTTELTON'S POEM S. Epigram,
... both , from courts and all their state , Eager I fly , to prove Joys far above a Courtier's fate , Tranquillity and Love . See the Infcriptions in Mr. Weft's Poems . Ta TO MISS LUCY FORTESCUE . O NCE , by the LYTTELTON'S POEM S. Epigram,
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