Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 pages "The object of this work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical poets, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with biographical and critical notices of their authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth" -- Page [i]. |
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... winds are piping loud , Or ushered with a shower still When the gust hath blown his fill , Ending on the russling leaves , With minute drops from off the eaves . And , when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams , me , goddess ...
... winds are piping loud , Or ushered with a shower still When the gust hath blown his fill , Ending on the russling leaves , With minute drops from off the eaves . And , when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams , me , goddess ...
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... winds , What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain ? And question'd every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story ; And sage Hippotades their answer brings , That not a blast was ...
... winds , What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain ? And question'd every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story ; And sage Hippotades their answer brings , That not a blast was ...
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... winds when they roar , And hush the waving woods ; nor of less faith , And in this office of his mountain watch ... Wind me into the easy - hearted man , And hug him into snares . When once her eye Hath met the virtue of this magic dust ...
... winds when they roar , And hush the waving woods ; nor of less faith , And in this office of his mountain watch ... Wind me into the easy - hearted man , And hug him into snares . When once her eye Hath met the virtue of this magic dust ...
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... wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with mineral fury , aid the winds , And leave a singed bottom all involv'd ...
... wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with mineral fury , aid the winds , And leave a singed bottom all involv'd ...
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... winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red - Sea coast , whose waves o'er- threw Busiris , and his Memphian chivalry ... wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darkened all the land of Nile : So numberless were ...
... winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red - Sea coast , whose waves o'er- threw Busiris , and his Memphian chivalry ... wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darkened all the land of Nile : So numberless were ...
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