The Works of the English Poets: J. Philips, Smith, and PomfretH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... earth's all - teeming womb , Invigorating tender feeds ; whose breath Nurtures the Orange , and the Citron groves , Hefperian fruits , and wafts their odors fweet Wide through the air , and distant fhores perfumes . Nor only do the ...
... earth's all - teeming womb , Invigorating tender feeds ; whose breath Nurtures the Orange , and the Citron groves , Hefperian fruits , and wafts their odors fweet Wide through the air , and distant fhores perfumes . Nor only do the ...
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... earth , nor to the plough , Nor to the cattle kind , with fandy stones And gravel o'er - abounding , think it not Beneath thy toil ; the sturdy pear - tree here Will rife luxuriant , and with toughest root * February the feventh , 1571 ...
... earth , nor to the plough , Nor to the cattle kind , with fandy stones And gravel o'er - abounding , think it not Beneath thy toil ; the sturdy pear - tree here Will rife luxuriant , and with toughest root * February the feventh , 1571 ...
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... vain ! the nurfling grove Seems fair a while , cherish'd with fofter earth : . But when the alien compost is exhaust , It's native poverty again prevails . D. 3 , Though Though this art fails , defpond not ; little pains CYDE R. Book I. 37.
... vain ! the nurfling grove Seems fair a while , cherish'd with fofter earth : . But when the alien compost is exhaust , It's native poverty again prevails . D. 3 , Though Though this art fails , defpond not ; little pains CYDE R. Book I. 37.
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... earth , to Stygian fhades Went quick , in one fad fepulchre inclos'd . In elder days , ere yet the Roman bands Victorious , this our other world fubdued , A fpacious city ftood , with firmest walls Sure mounded , and with numerous ...
... earth , to Stygian fhades Went quick , in one fad fepulchre inclos'd . In elder days , ere yet the Roman bands Victorious , this our other world fubdued , A fpacious city ftood , with firmest walls Sure mounded , and with numerous ...
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... earth fatiate clos'd . Thus this fair city fell , of which the name Survives alone ; nor is there found a mark , Whereby the curious paffenger may learn Her ample fite , fave coins , and mouldering urns , And huge unwieldy bones ...
... earth fatiate clos'd . Thus this fair city fell , of which the name Survives alone ; nor is there found a mark , Whereby the curious paffenger may learn Her ample fite , fave coins , and mouldering urns , And huge unwieldy bones ...
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Page 4 - Cadwallador and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he, O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of fam'd Cestrian cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his wares, or at th' Avonian mart, Or Maridunum, or the ancient town Yclep'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful soil!
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