The Works of the English Poets, Volume 12E. Cox, 1779 - 336 pages |
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... trace , what hidden worlds ex- plore ! Through feas , earth , air , and the wide - circling fky , What is not fought and feen by thy all - piercing eye ! IV . ' Twas now , when flowery lawns the IV . 14 CONGREVE'S POEMS .
... trace , what hidden worlds ex- plore ! Through feas , earth , air , and the wide - circling fky , What is not fought and feen by thy all - piercing eye ! IV . ' Twas now , when flowery lawns the IV . 14 CONGREVE'S POEMS .
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... feas , And is confin'd to home and eafe , Bounding his knowledge , to extend his days . In vain are all those arts we try , All our evafions , and regret to die : From the contagion of mortality , No clime is pure , no air is free : And ...
... feas , And is confin'd to home and eafe , Bounding his knowledge , to extend his days . In vain are all those arts we try , All our evafions , and regret to die : From the contagion of mortality , No clime is pure , no air is free : And ...
Page 49
... feas , Great Jove can , if he please , With one commanding nod appease . III . Seek not to know to - morrow's doom ; That is not ours , which is to come . The prefent moment's all our ftore : The next , fhould heaven allow , Then this ...
... feas , Great Jove can , if he please , With one commanding nod appease . III . Seek not to know to - morrow's doom ; That is not ours , which is to come . The prefent moment's all our ftore : The next , fhould heaven allow , Then this ...
Page 88
... feas . For if you grant no favour as ' tis new , Yet as a stranger , there is fomething due : From Rome ( to try its fate ) this play was fent ; Start not at Rome ! for there's no popery meant ; Though there the poet may his dwelling ...
... feas . For if you grant no favour as ' tis new , Yet as a stranger , there is fomething due : From Rome ( to try its fate ) this play was fent ; Start not at Rome ! for there's no popery meant ; Though there the poet may his dwelling ...
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... feas , and air ; Preffing the doubtful voyage till India's fhore Her fpicy bofom bares , and fpreads her shining ore . II . Nor II . Nor widows tears , nor tender orphans cries 164 CONGREVE'S POEMS . To the Right Honourable the Earl of ...
... feas , and air ; Preffing the doubtful voyage till India's fhore Her fpicy bofom bares , and fpreads her shining ore . II . Nor II . Nor widows tears , nor tender orphans cries 164 CONGREVE'S POEMS . To the Right Honourable the Earl of ...
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