The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Hughs, 1779 - 407 pages |
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Page 32
... navel , wash'd me , and mine head With her own hands she fashioned ; She did a covenant with nie make , ; And circumcis'd my tender foul , and thus she spake : “ Thou " Thou of my church shalt be ; " Hate 3.2 COWLEY'S POEMS .
... navel , wash'd me , and mine head With her own hands she fashioned ; She did a covenant with nie make , ; And circumcis'd my tender foul , and thus she spake : “ Thou " Thou of my church shalt be ; " Hate 3.2 COWLEY'S POEMS .
Page 33
... thou canst her despise no less than she does thee . Let all her gifts the portion be Of Folly , Luft , and Flattery , Fraud , Extortion , Calumny , Murder , Infidelity , Rebellion and Hypocrify ; Do thou not grieve , nor blush to be ...
... thou canst her despise no less than she does thee . Let all her gifts the portion be Of Folly , Luft , and Flattery , Fraud , Extortion , Calumny , Murder , Infidelity , Rebellion and Hypocrify ; Do thou not grieve , nor blush to be ...
Page 34
... thou didst fwerve ( Miftaken , honeft men ! ) in Cæfar's blood ; What mercy could the tyrant's life deferve , From him who kill'd himself , rather than ferve ? Th ' heroic exaltations of Good Are fo far from understood , We count them ...
... thou didst fwerve ( Miftaken , honeft men ! ) in Cæfar's blood ; What mercy could the tyrant's life deferve , From him who kill'd himself , rather than ferve ? Th ' heroic exaltations of Good Are fo far from understood , We count them ...
Page 35
... thou , With fuch a voice , and fuck a brow , As put the trembling ghoft to fudden flight ; It vanished , as a taper's light Goes out when spirits appear in fight .. D 2 One One would have thought ' t heard the morning crow BRUTU S. 35.
... thou , With fuch a voice , and fuck a brow , As put the trembling ghoft to fudden flight ; It vanished , as a taper's light Goes out when spirits appear in fight .. D 2 One One would have thought ' t heard the morning crow BRUTU S. 35.
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... Thou would'st have forc'd it back upon thy foes : Or flain ' t , like Cæfar , though it be A conqueror and a monarch mightier far than he . What joy can human things to us afford , When we fee perifh thus , by odd events , Ill men , and ...
... Thou would'st have forc'd it back upon thy foes : Or flain ' t , like Cæfar , though it be A conqueror and a monarch mightier far than he . What joy can human things to us afford , When we fee perifh thus , by odd events , Ill men , and ...
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