The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... ftill within them : and no lefs defire To found this nether empire , which might rife By policy , and long procefs of time , In emulation oppofite to Heav'n . Which , when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom , Satan except , none higher fat ...
... ftill within them : and no lefs defire To found this nether empire , which might rife By policy , and long procefs of time , In emulation oppofite to Heav'n . Which , when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom , Satan except , none higher fat ...
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... ftill to owe , Forgetful what from him I ftill receiv'd , And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not , but ftill pays , at once Ir dented and discharg'd ; what burden then ? O had his pow'rful deftiny ordain'd Me fome ...
... ftill to owe , Forgetful what from him I ftill receiv'd , And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not , but ftill pays , at once Ir dented and discharg'd ; what burden then ? O had his pow'rful deftiny ordain'd Me fome ...
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... ftill , but under shade ) 62 úght of him : one of the banish'd crew , fear , hath ventur'd from the deep , to raise Sew troubles ; him thy care must be to find . To whom the winged warrior thus return'd . Iriel , no wonder if thy ...
... ftill , but under shade ) 62 úght of him : one of the banish'd crew , fear , hath ventur'd from the deep , to raise Sew troubles ; him thy care must be to find . To whom the winged warrior thus return'd . Iriel , no wonder if thy ...
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... ftill advance his praife . His praife , ye winds , that from four quarters blow , Breathe foft or loud ; and wave your tops , ye Pines , With every plant ,, in fign of worship wave . Fountains , and ye that warble , as ye flow ...
... ftill advance his praife . His praife , ye winds , that from four quarters blow , Breathe foft or loud ; and wave your tops , ye Pines , With every plant ,, in fign of worship wave . Fountains , and ye that warble , as ye flow ...
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... ftill govern thou my song , Urania , and fit audience find , tho ' few , But drive far off the barbarous diffonance Of Bacchus and his revellers , the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope , where woods and rocks ...
... ftill govern thou my song , Urania , and fit audience find , tho ' few , But drive far off the barbarous diffonance Of Bacchus and his revellers , the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope , where woods and rocks ...
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