The Works of the English Poets, Volume 30J. Nichols, 1779 - 304 pages |
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... future ages shall with wonder view These glorious lines , which Harley's daughter drew ; They fhall confefs , that Britain could not raise A fairer column to the Father's praise . PROTOGENES and APELLES . WHEN poets wrote , and painters ...
... future ages shall with wonder view These glorious lines , which Harley's daughter drew ; They fhall confefs , that Britain could not raise A fairer column to the Father's praise . PROTOGENES and APELLES . WHEN poets wrote , and painters ...
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... future with the hopes of joy : The future ( few or more , howe'er they be ) Were deftin'd erft ; nor can by Fate's decree Be now cut off , betwixt the grave and thee . The First HYMN of CALLIMACHUS . To JUPITER . WHILE we to Jove felect ...
... future with the hopes of joy : The future ( few or more , howe'er they be ) Were deftin'd erft ; nor can by Fate's decree Be now cut off , betwixt the grave and thee . The First HYMN of CALLIMACHUS . To JUPITER . WHILE we to Jove felect ...
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... future ftrength and ornament of nations . Battus , our great progenitor , now touch'd The Libyan ftrand ; when the foreboding crow Flew on the right before the people , marking The country deftin'd the aufpicious feat Of future kings ...
... future ftrength and ornament of nations . Battus , our great progenitor , now touch'd The Libyan ftrand ; when the foreboding crow Flew on the right before the people , marking The country deftin'd the aufpicious feat Of future kings ...
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... er again digeft The horrors of fo fad a feaft ! Yet lefs our grief , if what remains , Dear Jacob , by thy care and pains * Himfelf . + Mr. Shelton . 5 10 Tonfon . Shall Shall be to future times convey'd . It thus begins [ 31 ]
... er again digeft The horrors of fo fad a feaft ! Yet lefs our grief , if what remains , Dear Jacob , by thy care and pains * Himfelf . + Mr. Shelton . 5 10 Tonfon . Shall Shall be to future times convey'd . It thus begins [ 31 ]
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Matthew Prior Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). Shall be to future times convey'd . It thus begins : ** Here Matthew faid : Alma in verfe , in profe the Mind , By Ariftotle's pen defin'd , Throughout the body fquat or tall , Is ...
Matthew Prior Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). Shall be to future times convey'd . It thus begins : ** Here Matthew faid : Alma in verfe , in profe the Mind , By Ariftotle's pen defin'd , Throughout the body fquat or tall , Is ...
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