The Works of the English Poets, Volume 30J. Nichols, 1779 - 304 pages |
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... I drown thofe fighs , Which , fpite of wisdom , from our weakness rise . The draught to the dead's memory I commend , And offer to thee now , immortal friend . But But if , oppos'd to what my thoughts approve , 16 POEMS . PRIOR'S.
... I drown thofe fighs , Which , fpite of wisdom , from our weakness rise . The draught to the dead's memory I commend , And offer to thee now , immortal friend . But But if , oppos'd to what my thoughts approve , 16 POEMS . PRIOR'S.
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... thoughts approve , Nor Pluto's rage there be , nor power of Jove ; On its dark fide if thou the profpect take ; Grant all forgot beyond black Lethe's lake ; In total death fuppofe ... thought has trac❜d . On Ida's mount , PRIOR'S ~ POEMS .
... thoughts approve , Nor Pluto's rage there be , nor power of Jove ; On its dark fide if thou the profpect take ; Grant all forgot beyond black Lethe's lake ; In total death fuppofe ... thought has trac❜d . On Ida's mount , PRIOR'S ~ POEMS .
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Matthew Prior Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). And various thought has trac❜d . On Ida's mount , Or Dicte , ftudious of his country's praife , The Cretan boafts thy natal place but oft He meets reproof deserv'd : for he ...
Matthew Prior Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). And various thought has trac❜d . On Ida's mount , Or Dicte , ftudious of his country's praife , The Cretan boafts thy natal place but oft He meets reproof deserv'd : for he ...
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... thought can reach , or science can define ; And had I power to give that knowledge birth ,. In all the speeches of the babbling earth ; Did Shadrach's zeal my glowing breaft infpire , To weary tortures , and rejoice in fire ; Or had I ...
... thought can reach , or science can define ; And had I power to give that knowledge birth ,. In all the speeches of the babbling earth ; Did Shadrach's zeal my glowing breaft infpire , To weary tortures , and rejoice in fire ; Or had I ...
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... thought difpenfes Her fovereign pleasure to the senses . Two optic nerves , they fay , the ties , Like fpectacles , across the eyes ; By which the fpirits bring her word , Whene'er the balls are fix'd or stirr'd , How quick at park and ...
... thought difpenfes Her fovereign pleasure to the senses . Two optic nerves , they fay , the ties , Like fpectacles , across the eyes ; By which the fpirits bring her word , Whene'er the balls are fix'd or stirr'd , How quick at park and ...
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