The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... boasted isle : her princes funk ; Her high - built honour moulder'd to the duft ; Unnerv'd her force ; her fpirit vanish'd quite ; With rapid wing her riches fled away ; Her unfrequented ports alone the fign 240 Of what she was ; her ...
... boasted isle : her princes funk ; Her high - built honour moulder'd to the duft ; Unnerv'd her force ; her fpirit vanish'd quite ; With rapid wing her riches fled away ; Her unfrequented ports alone the fign 240 Of what she was ; her ...
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... boast : Thy Buonarotis , thy Palladios mine ; And mine the fair defigns , which Raphael's foul O'er the live canvass , emanating , breath'd . What would you fay , ye conquerors of earth ! Ye Romans could you raise the laurel'd head ...
... boast : Thy Buonarotis , thy Palladios mine ; And mine the fair defigns , which Raphael's foul O'er the live canvass , emanating , breath'd . What would you fay , ye conquerors of earth ! Ye Romans could you raise the laurel'd head ...
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... boast ! unrival'd Greece ! My faireft reign ! where every power benign Confpir'd to blow the flower of human - kind , And lavish'd all that genius can inspire . Clear funny climates , by the breezy main , Iönian or Ægæan , temper'd kind ...
... boast ! unrival'd Greece ! My faireft reign ! where every power benign Confpir'd to blow the flower of human - kind , And lavish'd all that genius can inspire . Clear funny climates , by the breezy main , Iönian or Ægæan , temper'd kind ...
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... boast of these unequal'd times . Ages revolv'd unfully'd by a crime : Aftrea reign'd , and scarcely needed laws To bind a race elated with the pride Of virtue , and difdaining to defcend 190 To meannefs , mutual violence , and wrongs ...
... boast of these unequal'd times . Ages revolv'd unfully'd by a crime : Aftrea reign'd , and scarcely needed laws To bind a race elated with the pride Of virtue , and difdaining to defcend 190 To meannefs , mutual violence , and wrongs ...
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... every motion . Full her rifing cheft ; And new ideas , from her finish'd shape , Charm'd fculpture taking might improve her art . 445 450 455 460 465 470 Such Such the fair guardian of an ifle that boasts , 96 THOMSON'S POEMS .
... every motion . Full her rifing cheft ; And new ideas , from her finish'd shape , Charm'd fculpture taking might improve her art . 445 450 455 460 465 470 Such Such the fair guardian of an ifle that boasts , 96 THOMSON'S POEMS .
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