Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 |
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... sight ; From her fair head her fillet she undight , And laid her stole aside her angel's face , As the great eye of heaven , shined bright , And made a sunshine in a shady place ; Did ever mortal eye behold such heavenly grace . It ...
... sight ; From her fair head her fillet she undight , And laid her stole aside her angel's face , As the great eye of heaven , shined bright , And made a sunshine in a shady place ; Did ever mortal eye behold such heavenly grace . It ...
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... sights , A brief wherein all miracles summed lie ; Of fairest forms , and sweetest shapes the store , Most graceful all , yet thought may grace them more The mind a creature is , yet can create , To nature's patterns adding higher skill ...
... sights , A brief wherein all miracles summed lie ; Of fairest forms , and sweetest shapes the store , Most graceful all , yet thought may grace them more The mind a creature is , yet can create , To nature's patterns adding higher skill ...
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... sight : for she the same could wind VOL . I. - D Into the solid heart , and , with her ears GILES FLETCHER . 37 GILES FLETCHER, Mercy dwelling in Heaven, and pleading for Guilty, with Justice described by her Qualities.
... sight : for she the same could wind VOL . I. - D Into the solid heart , and , with her ears GILES FLETCHER . 37 GILES FLETCHER, Mercy dwelling in Heaven, and pleading for Guilty, with Justice described by her Qualities.
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... sight , Unbosoming the cheerful breast of all delight ? MERCY BRIGHTENING THE RAINBOW . HIGH in the airy element there hung Another cloudy sea , that did disdain , As though his purer waves from heaven sprung , To crawl on earth , as ...
... sight , Unbosoming the cheerful breast of all delight ? MERCY BRIGHTENING THE RAINBOW . HIGH in the airy element there hung Another cloudy sea , that did disdain , As though his purer waves from heaven sprung , To crawl on earth , as ...
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... sight The heavenly veil , that else should nimbly move , Forgot his flight , and all incensed with love , With wonder , and amazement , did her beauty prove . Over her hung a canopy of state , Not of rich tissue nor of spangled gold ...
... sight The heavenly veil , that else should nimbly move , Forgot his flight , and all incensed with love , With wonder , and amazement , did her beauty prove . Over her hung a canopy of state , Not of rich tissue nor of spangled gold ...
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