The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With folid , as the lake with liquid fire ; And fuch appear'd in hue , as when the force Of fubterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the fhatter'd fide Of ...
... till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With folid , as the lake with liquid fire ; And fuch appear'd in hue , as when the force Of fubterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the fhatter'd fide Of ...
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... Till good Jofiah drove them thence to Hell . With these came they , who from the bord'ring Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground , had general names Of Baalim and Ashtaroth , those male , These feminine . For ...
... Till good Jofiah drove them thence to Hell . With these came they , who from the bord'ring Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground , had general names Of Baalim and Ashtaroth , those male , These feminine . For ...
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... till winds the fignal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants , that Hell ... till firft I know of thee , What thing thou art , thus double - form'd , and why In this infernal , firft met , thou ...
... till winds the fignal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants , that Hell ... till firft I know of thee , What thing thou art , thus double - form'd , and why In this infernal , firft met , thou ...
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... till at last a gleam fprings Of Ganges or Hydafpes , Indian ftreams ; Bet in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana , where Chineses drive With fails and wind their cany waggons light : So on this windy fea of land , the Fiend ...
... till at last a gleam fprings Of Ganges or Hydafpes , Indian ftreams ; Bet in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana , where Chineses drive With fails and wind their cany waggons light : So on this windy fea of land , the Fiend ...
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... Till at His fecond bidding darkness fled , Light fhone , and order from diforder sprung . Swift to their feveral ... till on Niphates ' top he lights . Till pride and worse ambition threw me down , Warring Book III . 31 PARADISE LOST .
... Till at His fecond bidding darkness fled , Light fhone , and order from diforder sprung . Swift to their feveral ... till on Niphates ' top he lights . Till pride and worse ambition threw me down , Warring Book III . 31 PARADISE LOST .
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