The Works of the English Poets, Volume 50H. Baldwin, 1779 - 318 pages |
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... fire my ravish'd breaft ! What pleasure must retiring DRYDEN find , To fee that art his fkilful Mufe refin'd , So much improv'd by those he leaves behind ! So when a father fees a careful fon } Enlarge thofe coffers , which were first ...
... fire my ravish'd breaft ! What pleasure must retiring DRYDEN find , To fee that art his fkilful Mufe refin'd , So much improv'd by those he leaves behind ! So when a father fees a careful fon } Enlarge thofe coffers , which were first ...
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... fires ! Larger his fetting orb our eyes confefs , Eager we gaze , and the full glory.blefs ; As o'er the heavens , fublime , his course extends , With equal state , the radiant globe descends , Sinks , in a cloud of gold , and azure ...
... fires ! Larger his fetting orb our eyes confefs , Eager we gaze , and the full glory.blefs ; As o'er the heavens , fublime , his course extends , With equal state , the radiant globe descends , Sinks , in a cloud of gold , and azure ...
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... fire , How must thy Mufe be ever own'd divine , And in the facred lift unrival'd fhine ! 20 Nor joyous health was thine , nor downy ease ; To thee forbidden was the foft recess ; 25 Worn Worn with disease , and never - ceasing pain , 8 ...
... fire , How must thy Mufe be ever own'd divine , And in the facred lift unrival'd fhine ! 20 Nor joyous health was thine , nor downy ease ; To thee forbidden was the foft recess ; 25 Worn Worn with disease , and never - ceasing pain , 8 ...
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... fire Did juftly their enamour'd breasts inspire . At first , a numerous audience crown'd this play , And kind applaufes mark'd its happy way , 10 While He , like his own Phocyas , fnatch'd from view , 15 To fairer realms with ripen'd ...
... fire Did juftly their enamour'd breasts inspire . At first , a numerous audience crown'd this play , And kind applaufes mark'd its happy way , 10 While He , like his own Phocyas , fnatch'd from view , 15 To fairer realms with ripen'd ...
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... fires their veins , A general fhout fucceeds , as when on high Exploded thunder rends the vaulted sky . A fhort convulfion fhakes the folid fhore , And rocks th ' adjacent deep , unmov'd before ; Loud acclamations through the valleys ...
... fires their veins , A general fhout fucceeds , as when on high Exploded thunder rends the vaulted sky . A fhort convulfion fhakes the folid fhore , And rocks th ' adjacent deep , unmov'd before ; Loud acclamations through the valleys ...
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