The Works of the English Poets, Volume 11H. Baldwin, 1779 |
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... turn'd , and thus addrest : O thou , the first in merit and command ! And you the peers and princes of the land ! May every joy be yours ! nor this the least , When due libation fhall have crown'd the feast , Safe to my home to send ...
... turn'd , and thus addrest : O thou , the first in merit and command ! And you the peers and princes of the land ! May every joy be yours ! nor this the least , When due libation fhall have crown'd the feast , Safe to my home to send ...
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... Turn hoar the auburn honours of thy head , Disfigure every limb with coarse attire , And in thy eyes extinguith all the fire ; Add all the wants and the decays of life ; Eftrange thee from thy own ; thy fon , thy wife From the loath'd ...
... Turn hoar the auburn honours of thy head , Disfigure every limb with coarse attire , And in thy eyes extinguith all the fire ; Add all the wants and the decays of life ; Eftrange thee from thy own ; thy fon , thy wife From the loath'd ...
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... turn thy thought , and joys within our power . From fad reflection let my foul repose ; The name of him awakes a thousand woes . But guard him , Gods ! and to these arms reftore ! Not his true confort can defire him more ; Not old ...
... turn thy thought , and joys within our power . From fad reflection let my foul repose ; The name of him awakes a thousand woes . But guard him , Gods ! and to these arms reftore ! Not his true confort can defire him more ; Not old ...
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... turn the foe to flight , And tempt the secret ambush of the night . Let ghaftly death in all his forms appear , I faw him not , it was not mine to fear . Before the rest I rais'd my ready feel ; The first I met , he yielded , or he fell ...
... turn the foe to flight , And tempt the secret ambush of the night . Let ghaftly death in all his forms appear , I faw him not , it was not mine to fear . Before the rest I rais'd my ready feel ; The first I met , he yielded , or he fell ...
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... turn'd to flight ; the gathering vengeance spread On all parts round , and heaps on heaps lie dead . I then explor'd my thought , what course to prove ; ( And fure the thought was dictated by Jove , Oh ! had he left me to that happier ...
... turn'd to flight ; the gathering vengeance spread On all parts round , and heaps on heaps lie dead . I then explor'd my thought , what course to prove ; ( And fure the thought was dictated by Jove , Oh ! had he left me to that happier ...
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