The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... things at one view ? he from heav'n's All thefe our motions vain fees and derides ; [ height Not more almighty to refift our might , Than wife to fruftrate all our plots and wiles . Shall we then live thus vile , the race of heaven ...
... things at one view ? he from heav'n's All thefe our motions vain fees and derides ; [ height Not more almighty to refift our might , Than wife to fruftrate all our plots and wiles . Shall we then live thus vile , the race of heaven ...
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... 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 all the ...
... 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 all the ...
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... things vain , and all who in vain things Built their fond hopes of glory , or lafting fame , Or happiness in this or th ' other life ; All who have their reward on earth , the fruits Of painful fuperftition and blind zeal , Nought ...
... things vain , and all who in vain things Built their fond hopes of glory , or lafting fame , Or happiness in this or th ' other life ; All who have their reward on earth , the fruits Of painful fuperftition and blind zeal , Nought ...
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... things Of colour glorious , and effect fo rare ? Here matter new to gaze the devil met Undazzled far and wide his eye commands , For fight no obftacle found here , or shade , But all fun - fhine ; as when his beams at noon Culminate ...
... things Of colour glorious , and effect fo rare ? Here matter new to gaze the devil met Undazzled far and wide his eye commands , For fight no obftacle found here , or shade , But all fun - fhine ; as when his beams at noon Culminate ...
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... things clad ; Since accompanied ; for beast and bird , They to their graffy couch , thefe to their nefts Were flunk , all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous defcant fung ; pleaf'd : now glow'd the firmament ...
... things clad ; Since accompanied ; for beast and bird , They to their graffy couch , thefe to their nefts Were flunk , all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous defcant fung ; pleaf'd : now glow'd the firmament ...
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