The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... perhaps to vulgar readers , that it rather is to be efteem- ed an example fet , the first in Englife , of ancient liberty recovered to beroic poem , from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming . a PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. The ...
... perhaps to vulgar readers , that it rather is to be efteem- ed an example fet , the first in Englife , of ancient liberty recovered to beroic poem , from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming . a PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. The ...
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... perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmoft counfels from their deftin'd aim . But fee the angry Victor hath recall'd | His minifters of vengeance and pursuit Peor his other name , when he entic'd Ifrael in ...
... perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmoft counfels from their deftin'd aim . But fee the angry Victor hath recall'd | His minifters of vengeance and pursuit Peor his other name , when he entic'd Ifrael in ...
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... Perhaps hath spent his fhafts , and ceafes now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not flip th ' occafion , whether scorn , Or fatiate fury yield it from our foe . Secft thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The ...
... Perhaps hath spent his fhafts , and ceafes now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not flip th ' occafion , whether scorn , Or fatiate fury yield it from our foe . Secft thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The ...
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... perhaps Our firft eruption , thither or elsewhere : For this infernal pit thall never hold Celestial fp'rits in bondage , nor th ' abyfs Long under darkness cover . But thefe thoughts Full counfel muft mature : peace is despair'd , For ...
... perhaps Our firft eruption , thither or elsewhere : For this infernal pit thall never hold Celestial fp'rits in bondage , nor th ' abyfs Long under darkness cover . But thefe thoughts Full counfel muft mature : peace is despair'd , For ...
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... perhaps , The way feems difficult and fteep to fcale With upright wing against a higher foe . Let fuch bethink them , if the fleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benuaib not fill , That in our proper motion we afcend Up to our native ...
... perhaps , The way feems difficult and fteep to fcale With upright wing against a higher foe . Let fuch bethink them , if the fleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benuaib not fill , That in our proper motion we afcend Up to our native ...
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