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But death did them from future dangers free ; What God , alas ! will caution be For living man's security , Or will ensure our veffel in this faithless sea ? Neyer did the sun as yet So healthful a fair - day beget , That travelling ...
But death did them from future dangers free ; What God , alas ! will caution be For living man's security , Or will ensure our veffel in this faithless sea ? Neyer did the sun as yet So healthful a fair - day beget , That travelling ...
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With their drawn swords In ran Amphitryo and the Theban lords ; With doubting wonder , and with troubled joy , They saw the conquering boy Laugh , and point downwards to his prey , Where , in death's pangs and their own gore ...
With their drawn swords In ran Amphitryo and the Theban lords ; With doubting wonder , and with troubled joy , They saw the conquering boy Laugh , and point downwards to his prey , Where , in death's pangs and their own gore ...
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He bids him live and grow in fame ; Among the stars he sticks his name : The grave can but the drofs of him devour , So fmall is Death's , so great the Poet's , power ! Lo , how th ' obsequious wind , and swelling air , The Theban swan ...
He bids him live and grow in fame ; Among the stars he sticks his name : The grave can but the drofs of him devour , So fmall is Death's , so great the Poet's , power ! Lo , how th ' obsequious wind , and swelling air , The Theban swan ...
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... On their green infants here bestow : Canst all those magic virtues from them draw , That keep Disease and Death in awe ; Who , whilft thy wondrous skill in plants they see , Fear left the tree of life should be found out by thee .
... On their green infants here bestow : Canst all those magic virtues from them draw , That keep Disease and Death in awe ; Who , whilft thy wondrous skill in plants they see , Fear left the tree of life should be found out by thee .
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Some with vast costly tombs would purchase it , And by the proofs of death pretend to live . “ Here lies the great ” -false marble ! where ? Nothing but small and sordid dust lies there.Some build enormous mountain - palaces , The fools ...
Some with vast costly tombs would purchase it , And by the proofs of death pretend to live . “ Here lies the great ” -false marble ! where ? Nothing but small and sordid dust lies there.Some build enormous mountain - palaces , The fools ...
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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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