The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... mighty things with mighty numbers join , A fecond Namur , or a future Boyne . H. BLOUNT . POEMS POEM S By SIR SAMUEL GARTH , THE DISPENSARY . [ 18 ]
... mighty things with mighty numbers join , A fecond Namur , or a future Boyne . H. BLOUNT . POEMS POEM S By SIR SAMUEL GARTH , THE DISPENSARY . [ 18 ]
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... mighty truths , myfterious to defcry , Which in the womb of diftant caufes lie . 70 65 But now no grand enquiries are descry'd , Mean faction reigns where knowledge fhould prefide , Feuds are increas'd , and learning laid afide . Thus ...
... mighty truths , myfterious to defcry , Which in the womb of diftant caufes lie . 70 65 But now no grand enquiries are descry'd , Mean faction reigns where knowledge fhould prefide , Feuds are increas'd , and learning laid afide . Thus ...
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... mighty my fuccefs , Some granted my predictions more than guefs . But , doubtful as I am , I'll entertain This faith , there can be no miftake in gain . For the dull world muft honour pay to those , Who on their understanding molt ...
... mighty my fuccefs , Some granted my predictions more than guefs . But , doubtful as I am , I'll entertain This faith , there can be no miftake in gain . For the dull world muft honour pay to those , Who on their understanding molt ...
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... mighty numbers fell . Whilft others meanly afk'd whole months to flay , I - oft ' difpatch'd the patient in a day : With pen in hand I push'd to that degree , I scarce had left a wretch to give a fee . Some fell by laudanum , and fome ...
... mighty numbers fell . Whilft others meanly afk'd whole months to flay , I - oft ' difpatch'd the patient in a day : With pen in hand I push'd to that degree , I scarce had left a wretch to give a fee . Some fell by laudanum , and fome ...
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... mighty tubs " Of cinders bore.- Sir Richard Blackmore . + King Arthur , p . 307 . King Arthur , p . 327 . 185 " Naked E 4 " Naked and half - burnt hills with hideous wreck THE DISPENSARY . CANTO IV . 55 Ode on the Death of a Friend.
... mighty tubs " Of cinders bore.- Sir Richard Blackmore . + King Arthur , p . 307 . King Arthur , p . 327 . 185 " Naked E 4 " Naked and half - burnt hills with hideous wreck THE DISPENSARY . CANTO IV . 55 Ode on the Death of a Friend.
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