The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... plains to putrid fens Turn'd by thy fury . From their chearful bounds , See raz'd th ' enlivening village , farm , and feat . First , rural toil , by thy rapacious hand Robb'd of his poor reward , refign'd the plough ; And now he dares ...
... plains to putrid fens Turn'd by thy fury . From their chearful bounds , See raz'd th ' enlivening village , farm , and feat . First , rural toil , by thy rapacious hand Robb'd of his poor reward , refign'd the plough ; And now he dares ...
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... plains , thou self - defroyer ! foe To human kind ! Thy mountains too , profufe , Where favage nature blooms , feem their fad plaint To raise against thy defolating rod . There on the breezy brow , where thriving states , And famous ...
... plains , thou self - defroyer ! foe To human kind ! Thy mountains too , profufe , Where favage nature blooms , feem their fad plaint To raise against thy defolating rod . There on the breezy brow , where thriving states , And famous ...
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... rife amid the lifeless waste , Expiring nature all corrupted round ; While the lone Tyber , through the desert plain , 180 185 190 195 200 C 4 Winds Winds his wafte ftores , and fullen fweeps along . PART I. 23 LIBERTY .
... rife amid the lifeless waste , Expiring nature all corrupted round ; While the lone Tyber , through the desert plain , 180 185 190 195 200 C 4 Winds Winds his wafte ftores , and fullen fweeps along . PART I. 23 LIBERTY .
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... poffeft 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 .
... poffeft 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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... plains , Void of their cities ; unadorn'd your hills ; Ungrac'd your lakes ; your ports to fhips unknown ; Your lawless ... plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt in weeds the fhore of Venus lies . There Baix fees no ...
... plains , Void of their cities ; unadorn'd your hills ; Ungrac'd your lakes ; your ports to fhips unknown ; Your lawless ... plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt in weeds the fhore of Venus lies . There Baix fees no ...
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