The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... fome time affected his fight , and he now became totally blind . At this period too , he loft his wife in child - bed , who left him three daughters . He foon , however , married again , Catharine daughter of a Captain Woodcock ; but ...
... fome time affected his fight , and he now became totally blind . At this period too , he loft his wife in child - bed , who left him three daughters . He foon , however , married again , Catharine daughter of a Captain Woodcock ; but ...
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... fome small night - founder'd fkiff , Deeming fome island , oft , as feamen tell , With fixed anchor in his fcaly rind Moors by his fide under the lee , while night Invests the fea , and wished morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in ...
... fome small night - founder'd fkiff , Deeming fome island , oft , as feamen tell , With fixed anchor in his fcaly rind Moors by his fide under the lee , while night Invests the fea , and wished morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in ...
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... fome praise , And fome the Architect : his hand was known In Heav'n by many a towered structure high , Where scepter'd angels held their refidence , And fat as princes , whom the fupreme king , Exalted to fuch power , and gave to rule ...
... fome praise , And fome the Architect : his hand was known In Heav'n by many a towered structure high , Where scepter'd angels held their refidence , And fat as princes , whom the fupreme king , Exalted to fuch power , and gave to rule ...
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... fome worfe way his wrath may find To our deftruction ; if there be in hell [ demn'd Fear to be worfe deftroy'd : what can be worfe Than to dwell here , driv'n out from blifs , con- In this abhorred deep to utter woe ; Where pain of ...
... fome worfe way his wrath may find To our deftruction ; if there be in hell [ demn'd Fear to be worfe deftroy'd : what can be worfe Than to dwell here , driv'n out from blifs , con- In this abhorred deep to utter woe ; Where pain of ...
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... fome new race call'd MAN , about this time To be created like to us , though lefs In power and excellence , but favour'd more Of him who rules above ; fo was his will Pronounc'd among the gods , and , by an oath , That hook heaven's ...
... fome new race call'd MAN , about this time To be created like to us , though lefs In power and excellence , but favour'd more Of him who rules above ; fo was his will Pronounc'd among the gods , and , by an oath , That hook heaven's ...
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