The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it rag'd , in all affaults Their fureft fignal , they will foon refume New courage , and revive ; though now they lie Grovelling and proftrate on yon lake of fire ...
... heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it rag'd , in all affaults Their fureft fignal , they will foon refume New courage , and revive ; though now they lie Grovelling and proftrate on yon lake of fire ...
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... heard , and were abafh'd , and up they Upon the wing , as when men wont to watch On duty , fleeping found by whom they dread , Rouse and bestir themselves e'er well awake . Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were ...
... heard , and were abafh'd , and up they Upon the wing , as when men wont to watch On duty , fleeping found by whom they dread , Rouse and bestir themselves e'er well awake . Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were ...
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... 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 defire To found this ...
... 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 defire To found this ...
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... heard remote . Tow'rds him they With awful reverence prone ; and as a god [ bend Extol him equal to the High'ft in Heav'n : Nor fail'd they to exprefs how much they prais'd , That for the general fafety he defpis'd His own for neither ...
... heard remote . Tow'rds him they With awful reverence prone ; and as a god [ bend Extol him equal to the High'ft in Heav'n : Nor fail'd they to exprefs how much they prais'd , That for the general fafety he defpis'd His own for neither ...
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... Heard on the rueful ttream ; fierce Phlegethon , Whofe waves of torrent fire inflame with rage . Far off from these a flow and filent ftream , Lethe , the river of oblivion , rolls Her watry labyrinth , whereof who drinks Forthwith his ...
... Heard on the rueful ttream ; fierce Phlegethon , Whofe waves of torrent fire inflame with rage . Far off from these a flow and filent ftream , Lethe , the river of oblivion , rolls Her watry labyrinth , whereof who drinks Forthwith his ...
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