The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... death , which God by curfe Created evil , for evil only good , Where all life dies , death lives , and nature breeds , Perverfe , all monftrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , inutterable , and worfe Han fables yet have feign'd ...
... death , which God by curfe Created evil , for evil only good , Where all life dies , death lives , and nature breeds , Perverfe , all monftrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , inutterable , and worfe Han fables yet have feign'd ...
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... Death ; Hell trembled at the hideous name , and figh'd From all her caves , and back refounded Death . I fled , but he pursued ( though more , it seems , Inflam'd with luft than rage ) and fwifter far , Me overtook his mother , all ...
... Death ; Hell trembled at the hideous name , and figh'd From all her caves , and back refounded Death . I fled , but he pursued ( though more , it seems , Inflam'd with luft than rage ) and fwifter far , Me overtook his mother , all ...
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... Death Shall dwell at ease , and up and down unfeen Wing filently the buxom air , embalm'd With odors ; there ye fhall be fed and fill'd Immeasurably ; all things fhall be your prey . He ceas'd ; for both feem'd highly pleas'd , and Death ...
... Death Shall dwell at ease , and up and down unfeen Wing filently the buxom air , embalm'd With odors ; there ye fhall be fed and fill'd Immeasurably ; all things fhall be your prey . He ceas'd ; for both feem'd highly pleas'd , and Death ...
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... death for death . Say heav'nly Pow'rs , where fhall we find fuch love ? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime , and just th ' unjust to save ; Dwells in all Heaven charity fo dear ? He afk'd ; but all the heav'nly ...
... death for death . Say heav'nly Pow'rs , where fhall we find fuch love ? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime , and just th ' unjust to save ; Dwells in all Heaven charity fo dear ? He afk'd ; but all the heav'nly ...
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... death to life , whate'er death is , Some dreadful thing no doubt ; for well thou know'it , God hath pronounc'd it death to taste that tree , The only fign of our obedience left Among fo many figns of pow'r and rule Conferr'd upon us ...
... death to life , whate'er death is , Some dreadful thing no doubt ; for well thou know'it , God hath pronounc'd it death to taste that tree , The only fign of our obedience left Among fo many figns of pow'r and rule Conferr'd upon us ...
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