The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... 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 length the Arch - fiend lay Chain'd on the burning lake , nor ever thence Had ...
... 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 length the Arch - fiend lay Chain'd on the burning lake , nor ever thence Had ...
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... tell thee yet by deeds What it intends ; till firft I know of thee , What thing thou art , thus double - form'd , and why In this infernal , firft met , thou call'ft Me Father , and that phantafm call'ft my Son ; I know thee not , nor ...
... tell thee yet by deeds What it intends ; till firft I know of thee , What thing thou art , thus double - form'd , and why In this infernal , firft met , thou call'ft Me Father , and that phantafm call'ft my Son ; I know thee not , nor ...
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... tell Of things invifible to mortal fight . Now had th ' almighty Father from above , From the pure empyrean where he fits High - thron'd above all height , bent down his eye , His own works and their works at once to view : About him ...
... tell Of things invifible to mortal fight . Now had th ' almighty Father from above , From the pure empyrean where he fits High - thron'd above all height , bent down his eye , His own works and their works at once to view : About him ...
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... tell , Or longitude , ) where the great luminary Aloof the vulgar conftellations thick , That from his lordly eye keep distance due , Difpenfes light from far ; they , as they move Their ftarry dance in numbers that compute Days ...
... tell , Or longitude , ) where the great luminary Aloof the vulgar conftellations thick , That from his lordly eye keep distance due , Difpenfes light from far ; they , as they move Their ftarry dance in numbers that compute Days ...
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... tell how , if Art could tell , How from that faphir fount the crifped brooks , Rolling on orient pearl and fands of gold With mazy error under pendent fhades , Ran nectar , vifiting each plant , and fed Flow'rs worthy ' of Paradife ...
... tell how , if Art could tell , How from that faphir fount the crifped brooks , Rolling on orient pearl and fands of gold With mazy error under pendent fhades , Ran nectar , vifiting each plant , and fed Flow'rs worthy ' of Paradife ...
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