The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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Page 68
... bright Querpo fhone , Himself an Atlas , and his fhield a moon . A peltle for his truncheon led the van , And his high helmet was a close - ftool pan . His creft an Ibis , brandishing her beak , And winding in loofe folds her fpiral ...
... bright Querpo fhone , Himself an Atlas , and his fhield a moon . A peltle for his truncheon led the van , And his high helmet was a close - ftool pan . His creft an Ibis , brandishing her beak , And winding in loofe folds her fpiral ...
Page 69
... bright lift my victories record . More lives from me their prefervation own , Than lovers lofe if fair Cornelia frown . you 165 170 tell , 175 Your cures , fhrill Querpo cry'd , aloud But wifely your mifcarriages conceal . Zeno , a ...
... bright lift my victories record . More lives from me their prefervation own , Than lovers lofe if fair Cornelia frown . you 165 170 tell , 175 Your cures , fhrill Querpo cry'd , aloud But wifely your mifcarriages conceal . Zeno , a ...
Page 71
... Bright columns move in formidable pride ; The paffing pomp fo dazzled from afar , It feem'd a triumph , rather than a war . 215 220 Though wide the front , though grofs the phalanx grew , It look'd lefs dreadful , as it nearer grew ...
... Bright columns move in formidable pride ; The paffing pomp fo dazzled from afar , It feem'd a triumph , rather than a war . 215 220 Though wide the front , though grofs the phalanx grew , It look'd lefs dreadful , as it nearer grew ...
Page 77
... bright , More foft than air , more gay than morning - light . A charm she takes from each excelling fair , And borrow's Carlifle's fhape , and Grafton's air . Her eyes like Ranelagh's their beams difpenfe , With Churchill's bloom , and ...
... bright , More foft than air , more gay than morning - light . A charm she takes from each excelling fair , And borrow's Carlifle's fhape , and Grafton's air . Her eyes like Ranelagh's their beams difpenfe , With Churchill's bloom , and ...
Page 78
... bright they could not bear ; Celfus , alone unmov'd , the fight beheld , The reft in pale confufion left the field . So when the pygmies , marshal'd on the plains , Wage puny war against th ' invading cranes ; The puppets to their ...
... bright they could not bear ; Celfus , alone unmov'd , the fight beheld , The reft in pale confufion left the field . So when the pygmies , marshal'd on the plains , Wage puny war against th ' invading cranes ; The puppets to their ...
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