The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... paths erewhile untrod by man , The fair poetic region , to detect 50 Untafted fprings , to drink infpiring draughts , And fhade my temples with unfading flowers Cull'd from the laureate vale's profound recefs , Where never poet gain'd a ...
... paths erewhile untrod by man , The fair poetic region , to detect 50 Untafted fprings , to drink infpiring draughts , And fhade my temples with unfading flowers Cull'd from the laureate vale's profound recefs , Where never poet gain'd a ...
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... paths of good and ill , By this illuftrious image , in each kind Still moft illuftrious where the object holds Its native powers most perfect , she by this Illumes the headstrong impulse of defire , 360 And fanctifies his choice . The ...
... paths of good and ill , By this illuftrious image , in each kind Still moft illuftrious where the object holds Its native powers most perfect , she by this Illumes the headstrong impulse of defire , 360 And fanctifies his choice . The ...
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... paths , Ne'er fhall the found of this devoted lyre Be wanting ; whether on the rofy mead , When fummer fmiles , to warn the melting heart Of luxury's allurement ; whether firm Against the torrent and the ftubborn hill To urge bold ...
... paths , Ne'er fhall the found of this devoted lyre Be wanting ; whether on the rofy mead , When fummer fmiles , to warn the melting heart Of luxury's allurement ; whether firm Against the torrent and the ftubborn hill To urge bold ...
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... 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 in ten thousand hues ...
... 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 in ten thousand hues ...
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... paths Of nature and of fcience ; nurfe divine Of all heroic deeds and fair defires ! O ! let the breath of thy extended praise Inspire my kindling bofom to the height Of this untempted theme . Nor be my thoughts , Prefumptuous counted ...
... paths Of nature and of fcience ; nurfe divine Of all heroic deeds and fair defires ! O ! let the breath of thy extended praise Inspire my kindling bofom to the height Of this untempted theme . Nor be my thoughts , Prefumptuous counted ...
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