The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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... Heaven refounds with dire alarms ! Doth not the reader with like dread furvey The wounded gods repuls'd with foul dismay ? But when fome fair - one guides your fofter verfe , Her charms , her godlike features , to rehearse ; See how her ...
... Heaven refounds with dire alarms ! Doth not the reader with like dread furvey The wounded gods repuls'd with foul dismay ? But when fome fair - one guides your fofter verfe , Her charms , her godlike features , to rehearse ; See how her ...
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... heaven shall bear , And liftening wolves grow milder as they hear . So the verses were originally written : But the author , young as he was , foon found the abfurdity , which Spen- fer himself overlooked , of introducing wolves into ...
... heaven shall bear , And liftening wolves grow milder as they hear . So the verses were originally written : But the author , young as he was , foon found the abfurdity , which Spen- fer himself overlooked , of introducing wolves into ...
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... heaven and earth deplore , " Fair Daphne's dead , and Love is now no more ! " ' Tis done , and nature's various charms decay : See gloomy clouds obfcure the chearful day ! Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear , Their faded ...
... heaven and earth deplore , " Fair Daphne's dead , and Love is now no more ! " ' Tis done , and nature's various charms decay : See gloomy clouds obfcure the chearful day ! Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear , Their faded ...
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... heaven . By means of thee , whatever reliques of " our crimes remain , fhall be wiped away , and free the " world from perpetual fears . He fhall govern the earth " in peace , with the virtues of his Father . " ISAIAH , * From Jeffe's ...
... heaven . By means of thee , whatever reliques of " our crimes remain , fhall be wiped away , and free the " world from perpetual fears . He fhall govern the earth " in peace , with the virtues of his Father . " ISAIAH , * From Jeffe's ...
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... Heavens ! from high the dewy nectar pour , And in foft filence shed the kindly shower ! The fick and weak the healing ... heaven defcend . Swift fly the years , and rife the expected morn ! Oh spring to light , aufpicious Babe , be born ...
... Heavens ! from high the dewy nectar pour , And in foft filence shed the kindly shower ! The fick and weak the healing ... heaven defcend . Swift fly the years , and rife the expected morn ! Oh spring to light , aufpicious Babe , be born ...
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