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And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which fometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which fometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
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And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which sometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which sometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
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... Upwards he cast his threatening head : He gap'd and hiss'd aloud , With flaming eyes survey'd the trembling crowd , And , like a basilisk , almost look'd th ' affembly dead ; Swift fled th ' amazed king , the guards before him fled ...
... Upwards he cast his threatening head : He gap'd and hiss'd aloud , With flaming eyes survey'd the trembling crowd , And , like a basilisk , almost look'd th ' affembly dead ; Swift fled th ' amazed king , the guards before him fled ...
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... Broke both their active backs , and both it new , And both almost at once devour'd ; So much was over - power'd , By God's miraculous creation , His servant's , Nature's , llightly - wrought and feeble generation !
... Broke both their active backs , and both it new , And both almost at once devour'd ; So much was over - power'd , By God's miraculous creation , His servant's , Nature's , llightly - wrought and feeble generation !
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Envy at last crawls forth from that dire throng , Of all the direfull'st ; her black locks hung long , Attir'd with curling serpents ; her pale skin 155 Was almost dropp'd from the Marp bones within ; And at her breast stuck vipers ...
Envy at last crawls forth from that dire throng , Of all the direfull'st ; her black locks hung long , Attir'd with curling serpents ; her pale skin 155 Was almost dropp'd from the Marp bones within ; And at her breast stuck vipers ...
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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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