The Works of the English Poets, Volumes 1-2Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) H. Baldwin, 1779 - 315 pages |
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... immortality , Shed generous tears on wretches born to die ; Their fate deploring , to forget our own ! What all the pomps and triumphs of our lives , But legacies in blossom ? Our lean foil , Luxuriant grown , and rank in vanities ...
... immortality , Shed generous tears on wretches born to die ; Their fate deploring , to forget our own ! What all the pomps and triumphs of our lives , But legacies in blossom ? Our lean foil , Luxuriant grown , and rank in vanities ...
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... immortal breath can blow , 325 Pour forth their myriads , potentates , and powers , Of light , of darkness ; in a middle field , Wide , as creation ! populous , as wide ! A neutral region ! there to mark th ' event Of that great drama ...
... immortal breath can blow , 325 Pour forth their myriads , potentates , and powers , Of light , of darkness ; in a middle field , Wide , as creation ! populous , as wide ! A neutral region ! there to mark th ' event Of that great drama ...
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... immortal life ; To roufe the carelefs , the prefumptuous awe , And turn the tide of fouls another way ; By the fame tenderness divine ordain'd , ; 385 That planted Eden , and high - bloom'd for man , A fairer Eden , endless , in the ...
... immortal life ; To roufe the carelefs , the prefumptuous awe , And turn the tide of fouls another way ; By the fame tenderness divine ordain'd , ; 385 That planted Eden , and high - bloom'd for man , A fairer Eden , endless , in the ...
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... immortal too , Begot by madness on fair liberty ; Heaven's daughter , hell - debauch'd ! ber hand alone Unlocks deftruction to the fons of men , 450 Firft barr'd by thine : high - wall'd with adamant , Guarded with terrors reaching to ...
... immortal too , Begot by madness on fair liberty ; Heaven's daughter , hell - debauch'd ! ber hand alone Unlocks deftruction to the fons of men , 450 Firft barr'd by thine : high - wall'd with adamant , Guarded with terrors reaching to ...
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... immortal ; fhew'd the fource of joy The grand tribunal rais'd ; affign'd the bounds Of human grief : in few , to close the whole , The moral Mufe has fhadow'd out a fketch , Though not in form , nor with a Raphael - stroke , 525 530 535 ...
... immortal ; fhew'd the fource of joy The grand tribunal rais'd ; affign'd the bounds Of human grief : in few , to close the whole , The moral Mufe has fhadow'd out a fketch , Though not in form , nor with a Raphael - stroke , 525 530 535 ...
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