The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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... fame . What though the art of healing we pretend , He that defigns it leaft , is moft a friend . Into the right we err , and muft confess To overfights we often owe fuccefs . Thus Beffus got the battle in the play ; His glorious ...
... fame . What though the art of healing we pretend , He that defigns it leaft , is moft a friend . Into the right we err , and muft confess To overfights we often owe fuccefs . Thus Beffus got the battle in the play ; His glorious ...
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... fame . ' This Philip's fan prov'd in revolving years ; And firft for rattles , then for worlds fhed tears . The Fury spoke ; then in a moment fir'd The hero's breaft with tempefts , and retir'd . In boding dreams Mirmillo spent the ...
... fame . ' This Philip's fan prov'd in revolving years ; And firft for rattles , then for worlds fhed tears . The Fury spoke ; then in a moment fir'd The hero's breaft with tempefts , and retir'd . In boding dreams Mirmillo spent the ...
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... fame ; The dead I raife , my chivalry proclaim ; Difeafes baffled , and loft health reftor'd , In Fame's bright lift my victories record . More lives from me their prefervation own , Than lovers lofe if fair Cornelia frown . you 165 170 ...
... fame ; The dead I raife , my chivalry proclaim ; Difeafes baffled , and loft health reftor'd , In Fame's bright lift my victories record . More lives from me their prefervation own , Than lovers lofe if fair Cornelia frown . you 165 170 ...
Page 70
... Fame , that neither good nor bad conceals , 195 That Pembroke's worth , and Ormond's valour tells ; How truth in Burnet , how in Cavendish , reigns , Varro's magnificence with Maro's strains ; But how at church and bar all gape and ...
... Fame , that neither good nor bad conceals , 195 That Pembroke's worth , and Ormond's valour tells ; How truth in Burnet , how in Cavendish , reigns , Varro's magnificence with Maro's strains ; But how at church and bar all gape and ...
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... fame . I how'd of old , how vital currents glide , And the meanders of the refluent tide . 355 320 Then , Willis , why fpontaneous actions here , 325 And whence involuntary motions there : And how the fpirits , by mechanic laws , In ...
... fame . I how'd of old , how vital currents glide , And the meanders of the refluent tide . 355 320 Then , Willis , why fpontaneous actions here , 325 And whence involuntary motions there : And how the fpirits , by mechanic laws , In ...
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