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Page 66
... roll ; Or if , compell'd by Cynthia's filver beam , Obedient Tethys heaves the fwelling stream ; * Or if , by heat attracted to the sky , Old ocean lifts his heavy waves on high , And briny deeps the wasting sun supply ; What cause foe ...
... roll ; Or if , compell'd by Cynthia's filver beam , Obedient Tethys heaves the fwelling stream ; * Or if , by heat attracted to the sky , Old ocean lifts his heavy waves on high , And briny deeps the wasting sun supply ; What cause foe ...
Page 70
... rolls huge billows from the Libyan fhore When rending fails flit with the driving blast , And with a crash down comes the lofty maft ; Some coward mafter leaps from off the deck , And , hafty to defpair , prevents the wreck ; 1870 875 ...
... rolls huge billows from the Libyan fhore When rending fails flit with the driving blast , And with a crash down comes the lofty maft ; Some coward mafter leaps from off the deck , And , hafty to defpair , prevents the wreck ; 1870 875 ...
Page 72
... roll ; Fierce blafting bolts from northern regions come , 930 And aim their vengeance at imperial Rome . The ftars , that twinkled in the lonely night , 925 Now lift their bolder head in day's broad light . The moon , in all her ...
... roll ; Fierce blafting bolts from northern regions come , 930 And aim their vengeance at imperial Rome . The ftars , that twinkled in the lonely night , 925 Now lift their bolder head in day's broad light . The moon , in all her ...
Page 78
... rolling orbs beheld : Well could he judge the labours of the sphere , And calculate the just revolving year ) . 1090 ... roll , 1115 And heaven be feen to flame from pole to pole : Through peaceful orbits these unangry glide , But , God ...
... rolling orbs beheld : Well could he judge the labours of the sphere , And calculate the just revolving year ) . 1090 ... roll , 1115 And heaven be feen to flame from pole to pole : Through peaceful orbits these unangry glide , But , God ...
Page 92
... rolls the guilty burden down ; Till rifing mounds obftruct his watery way , And carcafes the gliding veffels ftay . But foon another ftream to aid him rofe , Swift o'er the fields a crimfon deluge flows : The Tufcan river fwells above ...
... rolls the guilty burden down ; Till rifing mounds obftruct his watery way , And carcafes the gliding veffels ftay . But foon another ftream to aid him rofe , Swift o'er the fields a crimfon deluge flows : The Tufcan river fwells above ...
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