The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Hughs, 1779 - 407 pages |
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... earth does hold So many virgin - mines of undiscover'd gold . The Baltic , Euxine , and the Cafpian , And flender - limb'd Mediterranean , Seem narrow creeks to thee , and only fit For the poor wretched fisher - boats of wit : Thy ...
... earth does hold So many virgin - mines of undiscover'd gold . The Baltic , Euxine , and the Cafpian , And flender - limb'd Mediterranean , Seem narrow creeks to thee , and only fit For the poor wretched fisher - boats of wit : Thy ...
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... Earth below , On their green infants here beftow : Cansft all those magic virtues from them draw , That keep Disease and Death in awe ; Who , whilft thy wondrous skill in plants they fee , Fear left the tree of life should be found out ...
... Earth below , On their green infants here beftow : Cansft all those magic virtues from them draw , That keep Disease and Death in awe ; Who , whilft thy wondrous skill in plants they fee , Fear left the tree of life should be found out ...
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... earth's proud title show ! ' Where fhall I find the noble British land ? ' Lo ! I at laft a northern speck espy , Which in the fea does lie , And feems a grain o ' th ' fand ! For this will any fin , or bleed . ? Of civil wars is this ...
... earth's proud title show ! ' Where fhall I find the noble British land ? ' Lo ! I at laft a northern speck espy , Which in the fea does lie , And feems a grain o ' th ' fand ! For this will any fin , or bleed . ? Of civil wars is this ...
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... earth , and fo Rich , valiant , wife , and virtuous , seem to grow : Because we draw a long nobility From hieroglyphic proofs of heraldry , And impudently talk of a posterity , And , like Egyptian chroniclers , Who write of twenty ...
... earth , and fo Rich , valiant , wife , and virtuous , seem to grow : Because we draw a long nobility From hieroglyphic proofs of heraldry , And impudently talk of a posterity , And , like Egyptian chroniclers , Who write of twenty ...
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... earth , Still as old Chaos , before Motion's birth : A dreadful hoft of judgments is gone out , In ftrength and number more Then e'er was rais'd by God before , To fcourge the rebel world , and march it round about . I fee the fword of ...
... earth , Still as old Chaos , before Motion's birth : A dreadful hoft of judgments is gone out , In ftrength and number more Then e'er was rais'd by God before , To fcourge the rebel world , and march it round about . I fee the fword of ...
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