The Works of the English Poets, Volumen32W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 376 páginas |
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... number'd with the mighty Dead ! Refign'd he fell ; fuperior to the dart , That quench'd its rage in Yours and Britain's Heart : You mourn : but Britain , lull'd in rest profound , ( Unconscious Britain ! ) flumbers o'er her wound ...
... number'd with the mighty Dead ! Refign'd he fell ; fuperior to the dart , That quench'd its rage in Yours and Britain's Heart : You mourn : but Britain , lull'd in rest profound , ( Unconscious Britain ! ) flumbers o'er her wound ...
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... numbers groan , Th ' entangled Slaves to folly not their own ! Meanly by fashionable fear opprefs'd , We seek our Virtues in each other's breast ; Blind to ourselves , adopt each foreign Vice , Another's weakness , intereft , or caprice ...
... numbers groan , Th ' entangled Slaves to folly not their own ! Meanly by fashionable fear opprefs'd , We seek our Virtues in each other's breast ; Blind to ourselves , adopt each foreign Vice , Another's weakness , intereft , or caprice ...
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... numbers to your fong : On wing proportion'd to your quarry rife , And stoop to earth , or foar among the skies . Thus when a modifh folly you rehearse , 280 Free the expreffion , fimple be the verse . In artless numbers paint th ...
... numbers to your fong : On wing proportion'd to your quarry rife , And stoop to earth , or foar among the skies . Thus when a modifh folly you rehearse , 280 Free the expreffion , fimple be the verse . In artless numbers paint th ...
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... numbers glow through Satire's page , And all her fmiles are darken'd into rage : On eagle - wing the gains Parnassus ' height , Not lofty Epic foars a nobler flight : 310 Then keener indignation fires her eye ; Then flash her lightnings ...
... numbers glow through Satire's page , And all her fmiles are darken'd into rage : On eagle - wing the gains Parnassus ' height , Not lofty Epic foars a nobler flight : 310 Then keener indignation fires her eye ; Then flash her lightnings ...
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... numbers aw'd corrupted Rome , And fwept audacious greatnefs to its doom ; The headlong torrent , thundering from on high , Rent the proud rock that lately brav'd the sky . But lo ! the fatal Victor of Mankind , Swoln Luxury ! -pale Ruin ...
... numbers aw'd corrupted Rome , And fwept audacious greatnefs to its doom ; The headlong torrent , thundering from on high , Rent the proud rock that lately brav'd the sky . But lo ! the fatal Victor of Mankind , Swoln Luxury ! -pale Ruin ...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces ..., Volumen32,Página 1 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1779 |
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