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None but Alcides e'er fet carlier forth than he : The God , his father's , blood nought could restrain , ' Twas ripe at first , and did disdain The flow advance of dull humanity . The big - limb'd babe in his huge ...
None but Alcides e'er fet carlier forth than he : The God , his father's , blood nought could restrain , ' Twas ripe at first , and did disdain The flow advance of dull humanity . The big - limb'd babe in his huge ...
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B R U T U S. Excellent Bratus ' of all human race . The best , till Nature was improv'd by Grace ; Till men above themselves Faith raised more Than Reason above beasts before . Virtue was thy life's centre , and from thence Did silently ...
B R U T U S. Excellent Bratus ' of all human race . The best , till Nature was improv'd by Grace ; Till men above themselves Faith raised more Than Reason above beasts before . Virtue was thy life's centre , and from thence Did silently ...
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What joy can human things to us afford , When we see perith thus , by odd events , Ill men , and wretched accidents , The best cause and best man that ever drew a sword ? When we fee The false Octavius and wild Antony , God - like ...
What joy can human things to us afford , When we see perith thus , by odd events , Ill men , and wretched accidents , The best cause and best man that ever drew a sword ? When we fee The false Octavius and wild Antony , God - like ...
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Abraham Cowley Samuel Johnson, C. Bathrust (Londres). A few years more , fo foon hadft thou not dy'd , Would have confounded human Virtue's pride , And thew'd thee a God crucify'd . TO DR . SCARBOROUGH .
Abraham Cowley Samuel Johnson, C. Bathrust (Londres). A few years more , fo foon hadft thou not dy'd , Would have confounded human Virtue's pride , And thew'd thee a God crucify'd . TO DR . SCARBOROUGH .
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Thy rivers and thy lakes shall so With human blood o'erflow , That they shall fetch the flaughter'd corpse away , Which in the fields around unburied lay , And rob the beasts and birds to give the fish their prey : The rotting corpse ...
Thy rivers and thy lakes shall so With human blood o'erflow , That they shall fetch the flaughter'd corpse away , Which in the fields around unburied lay , And rob the beasts and birds to give the fish their prey : The rotting corpse ...
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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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