The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... earth's inhabitants , the nibblers , shake , And Frogs , the dwellers in the waters , quake . Yet fill the Mice advance their dread defign , And the last danger threats the croaking line , Till Jove , that inly mourn'd the lofs they ...
... earth's inhabitants , the nibblers , shake , And Frogs , the dwellers in the waters , quake . Yet fill the Mice advance their dread defign , And the last danger threats the croaking line , Till Jove , that inly mourn'd the lofs they ...
Page 66
... Earth , at odds , As Fame reports it , with the Gods . Him frantic hunger wildly drives Against a thousand authors lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes , With horns without , and tufks ...
... Earth , at odds , As Fame reports it , with the Gods . Him frantic hunger wildly drives Against a thousand authors lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes , With horns without , and tufks ...
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... Earth's oblig'd to quake ) : He faw old mother Earth arise , She stood confefs'd before his eyes ; But not with what we read the wore , A caftle for a crown before , Nor with long ftreets and longer roads Dangling behind her , like ...
... Earth's oblig'd to quake ) : He faw old mother Earth arise , She stood confefs'd before his eyes ; But not with what we read the wore , A caftle for a crown before , Nor with long ftreets and longer roads Dangling behind her , like ...
Page 72
... Earth , And foul from Jove receiv'd a birth , Return they where they firft began ; But fince their union makes the man , Till Jove and Earth shall part these two , To Care who join'd them , man is due . He faid , and fprung with swift ...
... Earth , And foul from Jove receiv'd a birth , Return they where they firft began ; But fince their union makes the man , Till Jove and Earth shall part these two , To Care who join'd them , man is due . He faid , and fprung with swift ...
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... earth in fame they live , Are fenfelefs of the fame they give . Ha ! while I gaze , pale Cynthia fades , The bursting earth unveils the shades ! All flow , and wan , and wrap'd with shrouds , They rife in vifionary crouds , And all with ...
... earth in fame they live , Are fenfelefs of the fame they give . Ha ! while I gaze , pale Cynthia fades , The bursting earth unveils the shades ! All flow , and wan , and wrap'd with shrouds , They rife in vifionary crouds , And all with ...
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