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... Or the great acts of God - descended kings , Who in his numbers still survive and reign ; Each rich - embroider'd line , Which their triumphant brows around , By his sacred hand is bound , Does all their starry diadems outshine .
... Or the great acts of God - descended kings , Who in his numbers still survive and reign ; Each rich - embroider'd line , Which their triumphant brows around , By his sacred hand is bound , Does all their starry diadems outshine .
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... rubbish we remove ; To walk in ruins , like vain ghosts , we love , And with fond divining wands We search among the dea 1 For treasures buried ; Whilft still the liberal earth does hold So many virgin - mines of undiscover'd gold .
... rubbish we remove ; To walk in ruins , like vain ghosts , we love , And with fond divining wands We search among the dea 1 For treasures buried ; Whilft still the liberal earth does hold So many virgin - mines of undiscover'd gold .
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So fully still dost thou Enjoy the manhood and the bloom of Wit , And all the natural heat , but not the fever too ! So contraries on Ætna's top conspire ; Here hoary frosts , and by them breaks - out fire ! A secure peace the faithful ...
So fully still dost thou Enjoy the manhood and the bloom of Wit , And all the natural heat , but not the fever too ! So contraries on Ætna's top conspire ; Here hoary frosts , and by them breaks - out fire ! A secure peace the faithful ...
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Th ' heroic exaltations of Good Are so far from understood , We count them Vice : alas ! our fight ' s so ill , That things which swiftest move seem to stand still : We look not upon Virtue in her height , On her fupreme idea , brave ...
Th ' heroic exaltations of Good Are so far from understood , We count them Vice : alas ! our fight ' s so ill , That things which swiftest move seem to stand still : We look not upon Virtue in her height , On her fupreme idea , brave ...
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The cruel Stone , that restless pain , That ' s sometimes rollid away in vain , But still , like Sysiphus's stone , returns again , Thou break'st and meltest by learn'd juices ' force ( A greater work , though short the way appear ...
The cruel Stone , that restless pain , That ' s sometimes rollid away in vain , But still , like Sysiphus's stone , returns again , Thou break'st and meltest by learn'd juices ' force ( A greater work , though short the way appear ...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
| Author | Abraham Cowley |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, C. Bathrust (Londres) |
| Publisher | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 407 pages |
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