The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... hath affign'd The fields of folly , hither each advance Your fickles ; here the teeming foil affords Its richest growth . A favourite brood appears ; In whom the dæmon , with a mother's joy , Views all her charms reflected , all her ...
... hath affign'd The fields of folly , hither each advance Your fickles ; here the teeming foil affords Its richest growth . A favourite brood appears ; In whom the dæmon , with a mother's joy , Views all her charms reflected , all her ...
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... hath God connected things When present in the mind , which in themselves Have no connection ? Sure the rising sun O'er the cœrulean convex of the fea , 465 With equal brightness and with equal warmth Might rowl his fiery orb ; nor yet ...
... hath God connected things When present in the mind , which in themselves Have no connection ? Sure the rising sun O'er the cœrulean convex of the fea , 465 With equal brightness and with equal warmth Might rowl his fiery orb ; nor yet ...
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... hath fown these early feeds Of love and admiration , yet in vain , Without fair culture's kind parental aid , Without enlivening funs , and genial fhowers , And shelter from the blast , in vain we hope The tender plant should rear its ...
... hath fown these early feeds Of love and admiration , yet in vain , Without fair culture's kind parental aid , Without enlivening funs , and genial fhowers , And shelter from the blast , in vain we hope The tender plant should rear its ...
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... hath nature fram'd His bold imagination . For , amid The various forms which this full world prefents 220 225 Like rivals to his choice , what human breaft E'er doubts , before the tranfient and minute , To prize the vast , the stable ...
... hath nature fram'd His bold imagination . For , amid The various forms which this full world prefents 220 225 Like rivals to his choice , what human breaft E'er doubts , before the tranfient and minute , To prize the vast , the stable ...
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... , fhe then explores , whence purer light For countless ages travels through the abyss 245 250 255 260 Nor hath in fight of mortals yet arriv'd . Upon Upon the wide creation's utmost shore At length fhe stands 1.20 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
... , fhe then explores , whence purer light For countless ages travels through the abyss 245 250 255 260 Nor hath in fight of mortals yet arriv'd . Upon Upon the wide creation's utmost shore At length fhe stands 1.20 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
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