The Works of the English Poets, Volumes 17-19G. Bigg, 1779 - 2 pages |
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... Winter paffes off , Far to the north , and calls his ruffian blafts : His blafts obey , and quit the howling hill , The fhatter'd foreft , and the ravag'd vale ; While fofter gales fucceed , at whose kind touch , Diffolving fnows in ...
... Winter paffes off , Far to the north , and calls his ruffian blafts : His blafts obey , and quit the howling hill , The fhatter'd foreft , and the ravag'd vale ; While fofter gales fucceed , at whose kind touch , Diffolving fnows in ...
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... Winter keen Shook forth his waste of fnows ; and Summer fhot His peftilential heats . Great Spring , before , Green'd all the year ; and fruits and blossoms blush'd , In focial sweetness , on the self - fame bough . Pure was the ...
... Winter keen Shook forth his waste of fnows ; and Summer fhot His peftilential heats . Great Spring , before , Green'd all the year ; and fruits and blossoms blush'd , In focial sweetness , on the self - fame bough . Pure was the ...
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... winter's cold ? And the plain ox , That harmless , honest , guileless animal , In what has he offended ? he , whose toil , Patient and ever ready , clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest : fhall he bleed , And struggling groan ...
... winter's cold ? And the plain ox , That harmless , honest , guileless animal , In what has he offended ? he , whose toil , Patient and ever ready , clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest : fhall he bleed , And struggling groan ...
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... Winter fweeps them from the face of day . 345 Ev'n fo luxurious men , unheeding , pafs An idle fummer life in fortune's fhine , A feafon's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy , from vanity to vice ; Till , blown away by death ...
... Winter fweeps them from the face of day . 345 Ev'n fo luxurious men , unheeding , pafs An idle fummer life in fortune's fhine , A feafon's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy , from vanity to vice ; Till , blown away by death ...
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... Winter keens the brightening flood , Would I weak - fhivering linger on the brink . Thus life redoubles , and is oft preferv'd , By the bold fwimmer , in the fwift illapfe 1260 Of accident difaftrous . Hence the limbs Knit into force 36 ...
... Winter keens the brightening flood , Would I weak - fhivering linger on the brink . Thus life redoubles , and is oft preferv'd , By the bold fwimmer , in the fwift illapfe 1260 Of accident difaftrous . Hence the limbs Knit into force 36 ...
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æther amid beam beauty beneath blifs bloom bofom boundleſs breaſt breath breeze chearful clouds deep defcends delight earth eaſe Ev'n facred fafe fair fame favage fave feafon fecret fenfe fhade fhines fhore fide figh filent filk fing firſt fkies flame fleep flocks flood fmiles fnow focial foft folemn fome fong fons foreft foul ftill ftorm fuch fudden funk fwain fweet fwell gale gloom grace grove heart heaven hills himſelf laſt lefs loft looſe mingled mix'd moſt mountains Mufe mufic Muſe Nature Nature's night o'er paffions peace plain pleaſure Pour'd praiſe rage raiſe reſtleſs rife round ſcarce ſcene ſhade ſhake ſhe ſkies ſky ſpirit ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtores ſtorm ſtream ſweep tempeft thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand toil treaſures vale virtue waſte wave whofe whoſe wild winds wing Winter wiſdom woods worfe