The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... tear . Mufing , I lay ; warm from the facred walks , Where at each step imagination burns : While , fcatter'd wide around , aweful , and hoar , Lies , a vast monument , once - glorious Rome , The tomb of empire ! ruins ! that efface ...
... tear . Mufing , I lay ; warm from the facred walks , Where at each step imagination burns : While , fcatter'd wide around , aweful , and hoar , Lies , a vast monument , once - glorious Rome , The tomb of empire ! ruins ! that efface ...
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... tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæsars this began : Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin - peopled fpreads , at laft , the fyren plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt in weeds the fhore of ...
... tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæsars this began : Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin - peopled fpreads , at laft , the fyren plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt in weeds the fhore of ...
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... tear from their unnative foil ? Or , ftoring every harveft in thy ports , To plough the dreadful all - producing wave ? 325 330 335 66 Here paus'd the Goddefs . By the paufe affur'd , In trembling accents thus I mov'd my prayer . “ Oh ...
... tear from their unnative foil ? Or , ftoring every harveft in thy ports , To plough the dreadful all - producing wave ? 325 330 335 66 Here paus'd the Goddefs . By the paufe affur'd , In trembling accents thus I mov'd my prayer . “ Oh ...
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... tears 345 150 A populace unequal ; part too rich , And part or fierce with want or abject grown . Solon , at laft , their mild reftorer , rofe : Allay'd the tempeft ; to the calm of laws 155 Reduc'd the fettling whole ; and , with the ...
... tears 345 150 A populace unequal ; part too rich , And part or fierce with want or abject grown . Solon , at laft , their mild reftorer , rofe : Allay'd the tempeft ; to the calm of laws 155 Reduc'd the fettling whole ; and , with the ...
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... tear the Babylonian plain ; And bleft Arabia aromatic breathes . See that dividing far the watery north , 236 Parent of floods ! from the majestic Rhine , 249 Drunk by Batavian meads , to where , feven - mouth'd , In Euxine waves the ...
... tear the Babylonian plain ; And bleft Arabia aromatic breathes . See that dividing far the watery north , 236 Parent of floods ! from the majestic Rhine , 249 Drunk by Batavian meads , to where , feven - mouth'd , In Euxine waves the ...
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