The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... fear , To generous Britons never known before ? And fail'd my fleets for this ; on Indian tides To float , unactive , with the veering winds ? The mockery of war ! while hot disease , And floth diftemper'd , fwept off burning crowds ...
... fear , To generous Britons never known before ? And fail'd my fleets for this ; on Indian tides To float , unactive , with the veering winds ? The mockery of war ! while hot disease , And floth diftemper'd , fwept off burning crowds ...
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... fear , No mean fubmiffion , but commanded peace . Ah , how with indignation must they burn ! ( If aught , but joy , can touch etherial breasts With fhame ! with grief ! to fee their feeble fons Shrink from that empire o'er the conquer'd ...
... fear , No mean fubmiffion , but commanded peace . Ah , how with indignation must they burn ! ( If aught , but joy , can touch etherial breasts With fhame ! with grief ! to fee their feeble fons Shrink from that empire o'er the conquer'd ...
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... fear . Oppreffion raging o'er the waste he makes ; The human being almoft quite extinct ; And the whole fstate in broad corruption finks . Oh , fhun that gulph : that gaping ruin fhun ! And countless ages roll it far away From you , ye ...
... fear . Oppreffion raging o'er the waste he makes ; The human being almoft quite extinct ; And the whole fstate in broad corruption finks . Oh , fhun that gulph : that gaping ruin fhun ! And countless ages roll it far away From you , ye ...
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... fear ; No fcience pierce the darkness of their minds No nobler art the quick ambitious foul Of imitation in their breast awake . Ev'n , to fupply the needful arts of life , Mechanic toil denies the hopeless hand . Scarce any trace ...
... fear ; No fcience pierce the darkness of their minds No nobler art the quick ambitious foul Of imitation in their breast awake . Ev'n , to fupply the needful arts of life , Mechanic toil denies the hopeless hand . Scarce any trace ...
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... fear . Life had no charms , nor any terrors fate , 175 180 When Rome and glory call'd . But , in one view , 185 Mark the rare boast of these unequal'd times . Ages revolv'd unfully'd by a crime : Aftrea reign'd , and scarcely needed ...
... fear . Life had no charms , nor any terrors fate , 175 180 When Rome and glory call'd . But , in one view , 185 Mark the rare boast of these unequal'd times . Ages revolv'd unfully'd by a crime : Aftrea reign'd , and scarcely needed ...
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