The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... breast of Devonshire . And Macclesfield is active to defend His country with the zeal he loves his friend . Like Leda's radiant fons divinely clear , Portland and Jersey deck'd in rays appear , To gild by turns the Gallic hemifphere ...
... breast of Devonshire . And Macclesfield is active to defend His country with the zeal he loves his friend . Like Leda's radiant fons divinely clear , Portland and Jersey deck'd in rays appear , To gild by turns the Gallic hemifphere ...
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... breast the fury breath'd a storm , Then fought her cell , and re - affum'd her form . Thus from the fore although the infect flies , It leaves a brood of maggots in disguise . Officious Squirt in hafte forfook his shop , To fuccour the ...
... breast the fury breath'd a storm , Then fought her cell , and re - affum'd her form . Thus from the fore although the infect flies , It leaves a brood of maggots in disguise . Officious Squirt in hafte forfook his shop , To fuccour the ...
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... breast , And thus his anxious thoughts the Sage expreft . Oft ' has this planet roll'd around the fun , Since to confult the skies I first begun : Such my applause , fo mighty my fuccefs , Some granted my predictions more than guefs ...
... breast , And thus his anxious thoughts the Sage expreft . Oft ' has this planet roll'd around the fun , Since to confult the skies I first begun : Such my applause , fo mighty my fuccefs , Some granted my predictions more than guefs ...
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... breast with tempests , and retir'd . In boding dreams Mirmillo spent the night , And frightful phantoms danc'd before his fight , Till the pale Pleiads clos'd their eyes of light . At length gay morn glows in the eastern skies , The ...
... breast with tempests , and retir'd . In boding dreams Mirmillo spent the night , And frightful phantoms danc'd before his fight , Till the pale Pleiads clos'd their eyes of light . At length gay morn glows in the eastern skies , The ...
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... breast . Then tow'rds the fkies he tofs'd his threatening head , And , fir'd with more than mortal fury , faid : 24 340 * Those members of the college that obferve a late ftatute , are called by the apothecaries " Signetur men ...
... breast . Then tow'rds the fkies he tofs'd his threatening head , And , fir'd with more than mortal fury , faid : 24 340 * Those members of the college that obferve a late ftatute , are called by the apothecaries " Signetur men ...
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