The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... of all Which nature , art , and glory could bestow : What would you fay , deep in the last abyss Of flavery , vice , and unambitious want , 250 255 260 Thus Thus to behold her funk ? Your crowded plains , PART I. 25 LIBERTY .
... of all Which nature , art , and glory could bestow : What would you fay , deep in the last abyss Of flavery , vice , and unambitious want , 250 255 260 Thus Thus to behold her funk ? Your crowded plains , PART I. 25 LIBERTY .
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... last worst monfters of the fhaggy wood , Turn'd the keen arrow , and the fharpen'd spear . Then war grew glorious . Heroes then arofe ; Who , fcorning coward felf , for others liv'd , Toil'd for their eafe , and for their fafety bled ...
... last worst monfters of the fhaggy wood , Turn'd the keen arrow , and the fharpen'd spear . Then war grew glorious . Heroes then arofe ; Who , fcorning coward felf , for others liv'd , Toil'd for their eafe , and for their fafety bled ...
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... last , The rich Corinthian fpread her wanton wreath . The whole fo measur'd true , fo leffen'd off By fine proportion , that the marble pile , Form'd to repel the ftill or ftormy waste Of rolling ages , light as fabrics look'd That from ...
... last , The rich Corinthian fpread her wanton wreath . The whole fo measur'd true , fo leffen'd off By fine proportion , that the marble pile , Form'd to repel the ftill or ftormy waste Of rolling ages , light as fabrics look'd That from ...
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... last scenes I fled ; And long ere then , Leucadia's cloudy cliff , And the Ceraunian hills behind me thrown , All Latium food arouz'd . Ages before , Great mother of republics ! Greece had pour'd , Swarm after fwarm , her ardent youth ...
... last scenes I fled ; And long ere then , Leucadia's cloudy cliff , And the Ceraunian hills behind me thrown , All Latium food arouz'd . Ages before , Great mother of republics ! Greece had pour'd , Swarm after fwarm , her ardent youth ...
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... d to dare a death prepar'd By Punic rage . On earth his manly look Relentless fix'd , he from a last embrace , By chains polluted , put his wife afide , 170 His little children climbing for a kiss ; A new HIS 3 . THOMSON'S POEM S.
... d to dare a death prepar'd By Punic rage . On earth his manly look Relentless fix'd , he from a last embrace , By chains polluted , put his wife afide , 170 His little children climbing for a kiss ; A new HIS 3 . THOMSON'S POEM S.
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