The Works of the English Poets, Volume 46R. Hett, 1779 - 376 pages |
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... eyes , his air , and youthful grace , Have loft their ufual charms . No gay ALEXIS in the grove Shall be my future theme : I burn with an immortal love , And fing a purer flame . Seraphic heights I feem to gain , And facred tranfports ...
... eyes , his air , and youthful grace , Have loft their ufual charms . No gay ALEXIS in the grove Shall be my future theme : I burn with an immortal love , And fing a purer flame . Seraphic heights I feem to gain , And facred tranfports ...
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... Above the reach of vulgar eyes or thought , Hymning th ' Eternal Father ; as of old When firft th ' Almighty from the dark abyfs Of everlasting night and filence call'd The fhining worlds with B 3 Of VERSES TO MR . WATTS . 5 .
... Above the reach of vulgar eyes or thought , Hymning th ' Eternal Father ; as of old When firft th ' Almighty from the dark abyfs Of everlasting night and filence call'd The fhining worlds with B 3 Of VERSES TO MR . WATTS . 5 .
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... eyes of angels . - Oh ! like thee every nobler genius tune his voice Let To fubjects worthy of their towering thoughts . Let Heaven and Anna then your tuneful art Improve , and confecrate your deathlefs lays To him who reigns above ...
... eyes of angels . - Oh ! like thee every nobler genius tune his voice Let To fubjects worthy of their towering thoughts . Let Heaven and Anna then your tuneful art Improve , and confecrate your deathlefs lays To him who reigns above ...
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... eyes ; and " filence ; Then I heard a voice , faying , Shall mortal man be more just than God ? " & c . Job iv . When he defcribes the fafety of the righteous , he " bides him " from the fcourge of the tongue , he makes him laugh at ...
... eyes ; and " filence ; Then I heard a voice , faying , Shall mortal man be more just than God ? " & c . Job iv . When he defcribes the fafety of the righteous , he " bides him " from the fcourge of the tongue , he makes him laugh at ...
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... When his holiness is mentioned , " The heavens are not " clean in his fight , he charges his angels with folly : " He looks to the moon , and it shineth not , and the < ftars C 2 " stars are not pure before his eyes : He PREFACE . 19.
... When his holiness is mentioned , " The heavens are not " clean in his fight , he charges his angels with folly : " He looks to the moon , and it shineth not , and the < ftars C 2 " stars are not pure before his eyes : He PREFACE . 19.
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