The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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Page 59
... some kindred soul , To turn the human heart . Delightful truth ! Had he beheld the living chain afcend , And not a circling form , but rifing whole . Amid these fiall republics one arofe , On yellow Tyber's bank , almighty Rome , Fated ...
... some kindred soul , To turn the human heart . Delightful truth ! Had he beheld the living chain afcend , And not a circling form , but rifing whole . Amid these fiall republics one arofe , On yellow Tyber's bank , almighty Rome , Fated ...
Page 91
... some sparks alive : The feeming god - built city ! which My hand Deep in the bofom fix'd of wondering feas . Aftonish'd mortals fail'd , with pleafing awe , Around the fea - girt walls , by Neptune fenc'd , And down the briny street ...
... some sparks alive : The feeming god - built city ! which My hand Deep in the bofom fix'd of wondering feas . Aftonish'd mortals fail'd , with pleafing awe , Around the fea - girt walls , by Neptune fenc'd , And down the briny street ...
Page 101
... Some virtuous flip , can wear a blush . The laugh Prophane , when midnight bowls disclose the heart , 615 At ftarving virtue , and at virtue's fools . Determin'd to be broke , the plighted faith ; Nay more , the godlefs oath , that ...
... Some virtuous flip , can wear a blush . The laugh Prophane , when midnight bowls disclose the heart , 615 At ftarving virtue , and at virtue's fools . Determin'd to be broke , the plighted faith ; Nay more , the godlefs oath , that ...
Page 109
... Some ruling point in view : when , on the stock Of public good and glory grafted , spread 850 855 Their palms , their laurels ; or , if thence they stray'd , Swift to return , and patient of restraint : When regal flate , pre - eminence ...
... Some ruling point in view : when , on the stock Of public good and glory grafted , spread 850 855 Their palms , their laurels ; or , if thence they stray'd , Swift to return , and patient of restraint : When regal flate , pre - eminence ...
Page 240
... scene , The breezy mountains , and the forests green . Her maids around her mov'd , a duteous band ! Each bore a crook all rural in her hand : Sone Some fimple lay , of flocks and herds they fung 240 COLLINS'S POEM S.
... scene , The breezy mountains , and the forests green . Her maids around her mov'd , a duteous band ! Each bore a crook all rural in her hand : Sone Some fimple lay , of flocks and herds they fung 240 COLLINS'S POEM S.
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