The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... grief ; Then feeks from this foliloquy relief . Long have I reign'd unrival'd in the town , Opprefs'd with fees , and deafen'd with renown . None e'er could die with due folemnity , Unless his paffport first was fign'd by me . My ...
... grief ; Then feeks from this foliloquy relief . Long have I reign'd unrival'd in the town , Opprefs'd with fees , and deafen'd with renown . None e'er could die with due folemnity , Unless his paffport first was fign'd by me . My ...
Page 83
... grief fate heavy on his mournful look ; To whom , not unconcern'd , thus Celfus spoke : 170 175 ISO Tell me , thou much afflicted shade , why fighs Burft from your breaft , and torrents from your eyes : And who those mangled Manes are ...
... grief fate heavy on his mournful look ; To whom , not unconcern'd , thus Celfus spoke : 170 175 ISO Tell me , thou much afflicted shade , why fighs Burft from your breaft , and torrents from your eyes : And who those mangled Manes are ...
Page 101
... grief , Nor feeks from fleep , or fuftenance , relief . The lamp of life now cafts a glimmering light ; The meeting lids his fetting eyes benight . What force remains , the haplefs lover tries ; Invoking thus his kindred deities : Hafte ...
... grief , Nor feeks from fleep , or fuftenance , relief . The lamp of life now cafts a glimmering light ; The meeting lids his fetting eyes benight . What force remains , the haplefs lover tries ; Invoking thus his kindred deities : Hafte ...
Page 122
... grief , And give a love - fick deity relief . Too well the mighty power of plants I know , To thofe my figure and new fate I owe . Against Meffena , on th ' Aufonian coaft , I Scylla view'd , and from that hour was lost . In tendereft ...
... grief , And give a love - fick deity relief . Too well the mighty power of plants I know , To thofe my figure and new fate I owe . Against Meffena , on th ' Aufonian coaft , I Scylla view'd , and from that hour was lost . In tendereft ...
Page 124
... grief the pitying God appears , And fwells the rifing furges with his tears ; From the diftreffed Sorcerefs he flies ; Her art reviles , and her addrefs denies : Whilft hapless Scylla , chang'd to rocks , decrees Deftruction to thofe ...
... grief the pitying God appears , And fwells the rifing furges with his tears ; From the diftreffed Sorcerefs he flies ; Her art reviles , and her addrefs denies : Whilft hapless Scylla , chang'd to rocks , decrees Deftruction to thofe ...
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