The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fire the chofen genius ; nature's hand Must string his nerves , and imp his eagle - wings Impatient of the painful steep , to foar High as the fummit ; there to breathe at large Ætherial air ; with bards and fages old , Immortal fons of ...
... fire the chofen genius ; nature's hand Must string his nerves , and imp his eagle - wings Impatient of the painful steep , to foar High as the fummit ; there to breathe at large Ætherial air ; with bards and fages old , Immortal fons of ...
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... rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , 175 Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots Shoots round the wide horizon , to furvey Nilus or 18 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
... rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , 175 Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots Shoots round the wide horizon , to furvey Nilus or 18 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
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... fire the heavens , Or fhapes infernal rend the groaning earth . To fright you from your joys : my cheerful fong With better omens calls you to the field , Pleas'd with your generous ardour in the chace , And warm like you . Then tell me ...
... fire the heavens , Or fhapes infernal rend the groaning earth . To fright you from your joys : my cheerful fong With better omens calls you to the field , Pleas'd with your generous ardour in the chace , And warm like you . Then tell me ...
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... fire , To deck the honour'd paths of just and good , Has added bright imagination's rays : Where virtue , rifing from the awful depth Of truth's mysterious bofom , doth forfake The unadorn'd condition of her birth ; And drefs'd by fancy ...
... fire , To deck the honour'd paths of just and good , Has added bright imagination's rays : Where virtue , rifing from the awful depth Of truth's mysterious bofom , doth forfake The unadorn'd condition of her birth ; And drefs'd by fancy ...
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... fires Of civil wisdom , thy heroic youth Warm from the schools of glory . Guide my way Through fair Lycéum's walk , the green retreats Of Academus , and the thymy vale , Where oft inchanted with Socratic founds , Iliffus pure devolv'd ...
... fires Of civil wisdom , thy heroic youth Warm from the schools of glory . Guide my way Through fair Lycéum's walk , the green retreats Of Academus , and the thymy vale , Where oft inchanted with Socratic founds , Iliffus pure devolv'd ...
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