The Works of the English Poets, Volume 46R. Hett, 1779 - 376 pages |
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... immortal love , And fing a purer flame . Seraphic heights I feem to gain , And facred tranfports feel , While , WATTS , to thy celeftial ftrain , Surpriz'd , I liften ftill . The gliding ftreams their courfe forbear , When I thy lays ...
... immortal love , And fing a purer flame . Seraphic heights I feem to gain , And facred tranfports feel , While , WATTS , to thy celeftial ftrain , Surpriz'd , I liften ftill . The gliding ftreams their courfe forbear , When I thy lays ...
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... immortal lyre . Amaz'd , we view The towering height ftupendous , while thou foar'st 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 ...
... immortal lyre . Amaz'd , we view The towering height ftupendous , while thou foar'st 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 ...
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... immortal youth . Not fo , alas ! the vile apoftate race , Who in mad joys their brutal hours employ'd , Affaulting with their impious blafphcmies The Power fupreme that gave them life and breath ; Incarnate fiends ! outrageous they defy ...
... immortal youth . Not fo , alas ! the vile apoftate race , Who in mad joys their brutal hours employ'd , Affaulting with their impious blafphcmies The Power fupreme that gave them life and breath ; Incarnate fiends ! outrageous they defy ...
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... immortal heights , And trace the boundlefs glories of the sky , Should now to every idol bafely bow , And curfe the deity fhe once ador'd , Erecting trophies to each fordid vice , And celebrating the infernal praise Of haughty Lucifer ...
... immortal heights , And trace the boundlefs glories of the sky , Should now to every idol bafely bow , And curfe the deity fhe once ador'd , Erecting trophies to each fordid vice , And celebrating the infernal praise Of haughty Lucifer ...
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... immortal man , that with immortal verse Rivals the hymns of angels , and like them Defpifes mortal criticks ' idle rules : While the celeftial flame that warms thy foul Infpires us , and with holy transports moves Our labouring minds ...
... immortal man , that with immortal verse Rivals the hymns of angels , and like them Defpifes mortal criticks ' idle rules : While the celeftial flame that warms thy foul Infpires us , and with holy transports moves Our labouring minds ...
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