The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... toil ; My verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of mufical delight ! and while I fing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , fmiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent Fancy ! from the fruitful banks Of ...
... toil ; My verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of mufical delight ! and while I fing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , fmiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent Fancy ! from the fruitful banks Of ...
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... toil Obfcure to conquer the fevere afcent Of high Parnaffus . Nature's kindling breath Muft 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 ...
... toil Obfcure to conquer the fevere afcent Of high Parnaffus . Nature's kindling breath Muft 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 ...
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... toil . To fome the taught the fabric of the fphere , The changeful moon , the circuit of the stars , The golden zones of heaven : to fome fhe gave 85 Το To weigh the moment of eternal things , Of time PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION , Book I. 15.
... toil . To fome the taught the fabric of the fphere , The changeful moon , the circuit of the stars , The golden zones of heaven : to fome fhe gave 85 Το To weigh the moment of eternal things , Of time PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION , Book I. 15.
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... toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but 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 ...
... toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but 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 ...
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... toil Can yield a moment's refpite , hither turn Your favourable ear , and trust my words . I do not mean to wake the gloomy form Of fuperftition drefs'd in Wisdom's garb , To damp , your tender hopes ;; I do not mean To bid the jealous ...
... toil Can yield a moment's refpite , hither turn Your favourable ear , and trust my words . I do not mean to wake the gloomy form Of fuperftition drefs'd in Wisdom's garb , To damp , your tender hopes ;; I do not mean To bid the jealous ...
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