The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Hughs, 1779 - 407 pages |
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Page 46
... grown , To ' a better being do aspire , And mount herself , like him , to ' eternity in fire .. ΤΟ THE NEW YEAR . GREAT Janus ! ( who doft fure my mistress view With all thine eyes , yet think'ft them all too few ) If thy fore - face do ...
... grown , To ' a better being do aspire , And mount herself , like him , to ' eternity in fire .. ΤΟ THE NEW YEAR . GREAT Janus ! ( who doft fure my mistress view With all thine eyes , yet think'ft them all too few ) If thy fore - face do ...
Page 48
... grow mad with little learning there : Upon the brink of every ill we did foresee , Undecently and foolishly We should stand fhivering , and but slowly venture The fatal flood to enter . Since , willing or unwilling , we must do it ...
... grow mad with little learning there : Upon the brink of every ill we did foresee , Undecently and foolishly We should stand fhivering , and but slowly venture The fatal flood to enter . Since , willing or unwilling , we must do it ...
Page 50
... 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 thousand years , With maravedies make th ' account , That fingle ...
... 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 thousand years , With maravedies make th ' account , That fingle ...
Page 55
... grow . Think , ftubborn Man , think of th ' Egyptian Prince ( Hard of belief and will , but not so hard as thou ) ; Think with what dreadful proofs God did convince The feeble arguments that human power could show ; Think what plagues ...
... grow . Think , ftubborn Man , think of th ' Egyptian Prince ( Hard of belief and will , but not so hard as thou ) ; Think with what dreadful proofs God did convince The feeble arguments that human power could show ; Think what plagues ...
Page 63
... grow → Substantial Night , that does disclaim Privation's empty name- Through fecret conduits monftrous shapes arose , Such as the fun's whole force could not oppose : They with a folid cloud All heaven's eclipsed face did shroud ...
... grow → Substantial Night , that does disclaim Privation's empty name- Through fecret conduits monftrous shapes arose , Such as the fun's whole force could not oppose : They with a folid cloud All heaven's eclipsed face did shroud ...
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