The Works of the English Poets, Volumes 1-2Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) H. Baldwin, 1779 - 315 pages |
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... fall . But needlefs monuments to wake the thought ; Life's gayeft fcenes fpeak man's mortality ; Though in a ftyle more florid , full as plain , As mausoleums , pyramids , and tombs . What are our noblest ornaments , but deaths Turn'd ...
... fall . But needlefs monuments to wake the thought ; Life's gayeft fcenes fpeak man's mortality ; Though in a ftyle more florid , full as plain , As mausoleums , pyramids , and tombs . What are our noblest ornaments , but deaths Turn'd ...
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... dreads ; And deems it the first moment of his fall . 270 275 ' Tis prefent to my thought ! —and yet where is it ? Angels can't tell me ; angels cannot gues 280 The The period ; from created beings lock'd In darkness . 10 YOUNG'S POEMS .
... dreads ; And deems it the first moment of his fall . 270 275 ' Tis prefent to my thought ! —and yet where is it ? Angels can't tell me ; angels cannot gues 280 The The period ; from created beings lock'd In darkness . 10 YOUNG'S POEMS .
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... fall ) now bursting o'er his head ; His lamp , the fun , extinguish'd ; from beneath The frown of hideous darkness ... falls on his own scythe ; nor falls alone ; His greatest foe falls with him ; Time , and he Who murder'd all Time's ...
... fall ) now bursting o'er his head ; His lamp , the fun , extinguish'd ; from beneath The frown of hideous darkness ... falls on his own scythe ; nor falls alone ; His greatest foe falls with him ; Time , and he Who murder'd all Time's ...
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... fall Bloodshed , and havock , on embattled realms , And refcued Monarchs from fo black a guilt ! Bourbon this with how generous in a foe ! Wouldst thou be great , wouldst thou become a God , And stick thy deathlefs name among the stars ...
... fall Bloodshed , and havock , on embattled realms , And refcued Monarchs from fo black a guilt ! Bourbon this with how generous in a foe ! Wouldst thou be great , wouldst thou become a God , And stick thy deathlefs name among the stars ...
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... fall foft beams on human rest , Restless themselves . On yon coerulean plain , In exultation to Their God , and Thine , They dance , they fing eternal jubilee , Eternal celebration of His praife . But , fince their Song arrives not at ...
... fall foft beams on human rest , Restless themselves . On yon coerulean plain , In exultation to Their God , and Thine , They dance , they fing eternal jubilee , Eternal celebration of His praife . But , fince their Song arrives not at ...
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