The Works of the English Poets, Volume 56J. Rivington, 1779 - 371 pages |
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... race difdain ? Yet , oh ! what doubt , what fad prefaging voice , Whispers within , and bids me not rejoice ; Bids me contemplate every ftate around , From fultry Spain to Norway's icy bound ; Bids their loft rights , their ruin'd ...
... race difdain ? Yet , oh ! what doubt , what fad prefaging voice , Whispers within , and bids me not rejoice ; Bids me contemplate every ftate around , From fultry Spain to Norway's icy bound ; Bids their loft rights , their ruin'd ...
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... race he nobly run , And decks repofe with trophies Labour won . Him Honour follows to the fecret shade , And crowns propitious his declining head ; In his retreats their harps the Muses string , For him in lays unbought fpontaneous fing ...
... race he nobly run , And decks repofe with trophies Labour won . Him Honour follows to the fecret shade , And crowns propitious his declining head ; In his retreats their harps the Muses string , For him in lays unbought fpontaneous fing ...
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... race by mettle sprightly courfers prove ; Nor can the warlike eagle's active fire Degenerate to form the timorous dove . VIII . But education can the genius raise , And wife inftructions native virtue aid ; Nobility without them is ...
... race by mettle sprightly courfers prove ; Nor can the warlike eagle's active fire Degenerate to form the timorous dove . VIII . But education can the genius raise , And wife inftructions native virtue aid ; Nobility without them is ...
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... race . X. Of this be witness that aufpicious day , Which , after a long , black , tempeftuous night , Firft fimil'd on Latium with a milder ray , And chear'd our drooping hearts with dawning light . XI . Since the dire African with ...
... race . X. Of this be witness that aufpicious day , Which , after a long , black , tempeftuous night , Firft fimil'd on Latium with a milder ray , And chear'd our drooping hearts with dawning light . XI . Since the dire African with ...
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... taxes , treaties for a day , Servants that rule , and fenates that obey . O people , O people , far unlike the Grecian race , That 98 LYTTELTON'S POEMS . To Mr Glover, on the Poem of Leonidas Written in the year 1734, Page.
... taxes , treaties for a day , Servants that rule , and fenates that obey . O people , O people , far unlike the Grecian race , That 98 LYTTELTON'S POEMS . To Mr Glover, on the Poem of Leonidas Written in the year 1734, Page.
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