Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin A. Hart, Carey & Hart, 1850 - 807 pages |
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... rest a small unsightly root , But of divine effect , he cull'd me out ; The leaf was darkish , and had prickles on it , But in another country , as he said , 630 Bore a bright golden flower , but not in this soil : Unknown , and light ...
... rest a small unsightly root , But of divine effect , he cull'd me out ; The leaf was darkish , and had prickles on it , But in another country , as he said , 630 Bore a bright golden flower , but not in this soil : Unknown , and light ...
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... rest , if any rest can harbor there ; And reassembling our afflicted powers , Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ...
... rest , if any rest can harbor there ; And reassembling our afflicted powers , Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ...
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... rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun , new risen , Looks ...
... rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun , new risen , Looks ...
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... rest ; so is my will : The rest shall hear me call , and oft be warn'd Their sinful state , and to appease betimes The incensed Deity , while offer'd grace Invites ; for I will clear their senses dark , What may suffice , and soften ...
... rest ; so is my will : The rest shall hear me call , and oft be warn'd Their sinful state , and to appease betimes The incensed Deity , while offer'd grace Invites ; for I will clear their senses dark , What may suffice , and soften ...
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... rest in circuit walls this universe . Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though but reflected , shines : That place is Earth , the seat of Man ; that light His day , which else , as the other ...
... rest in circuit walls this universe . Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though but reflected , shines : That place is Earth , the seat of Man ; that light His day , which else , as the other ...
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