The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... fuch a compass find ? Whence furnish fuch a vast expanfe of mind ? Just heaven thee , like Tirefias , to requite , Rewards with prophefy thy lofs of fight . Well might'st thou scorn thy readers to allure With tinkling rhyme , of thy own ...
... fuch a compass find ? Whence furnish fuch a vast expanfe of mind ? Just heaven thee , like Tirefias , to requite , Rewards with prophefy thy lofs of fight . Well might'st thou scorn thy readers to allure With tinkling rhyme , of thy own ...
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... fuch appear'd in hue , as when the force Of fubterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the fhatter'd fide Of thundering Etna , whofe combustible And fuel'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with mineral fury ...
... fuch appear'd in hue , as when the force Of fubterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the fhatter'd fide Of thundering Etna , whofe combustible And fuel'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with mineral fury ...
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... fuch united force of gods , how fuch As flood like thefe , could ever know repulfe ? For who can yet believe , though after lofs , That all thefe puiffant legions , whofe exile Hath emptied Heav'n , fhall fail to re - afcend , Self ...
... fuch united force of gods , how fuch As flood like thefe , could ever know repulfe ? For who can yet believe , though after lofs , That all thefe puiffant legions , whofe exile Hath emptied Heav'n , fhall fail to re - afcend , Self ...
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... fuch applaufe was heard As Mammon ended , and his fentence pleas'd , Adviling peace for fuch another field They dreaded worfe than hell : fo much the fear Of thunder and the fword of Michael Wrought ftill within them : and no lefs ...
... fuch applaufe was heard As Mammon ended , and his fentence pleas'd , Adviling peace for fuch another field They dreaded worfe than hell : fo much the fear Of thunder and the fword of Michael Wrought ftill within them : and no lefs ...
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... fuch return From me , whom he created what I was In that bright erninence , and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his fervice hard . What could be lefs than to afford him praife , The cafieft recompence , and pay him thanks , How ...
... fuch return From me , whom he created what I was In that bright erninence , and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his fervice hard . What could be lefs than to afford him praife , The cafieft recompence , and pay him thanks , How ...
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