The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Whose blended light , as with a milky zone , Invests the orient . Now amaz'd she views The empyreal wafte , where happy spirits hold , Beyond this concave heaven , their calm abode ; And fields of radiance , whofe unfading light Has ...
... Whose blended light , as with a milky zone , Invests the orient . Now amaz'd she views The empyreal wafte , where happy spirits hold , Beyond this concave heaven , their calm abode ; And fields of radiance , whofe unfading light Has ...
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... Whose bosom smiles with verdure , the clear tract 365 Of ftreams delicious to the thirsty foul , The bloom of nectar'd fruitage ripe to fenfe , And every charm of animated things , Are only pledges of a ftate fincere , The integrity and ...
... Whose bosom smiles with verdure , the clear tract 365 Of ftreams delicious to the thirsty foul , The bloom of nectar'd fruitage ripe to fenfe , And every charm of animated things , Are only pledges of a ftate fincere , The integrity and ...
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... moft confpicuous , even in outward shape , Where dawns the high expreffion of a mind : By steps conducting our inraptur'd fearch 455 460 465 479 475 Το To that eternal origin , whose power , Through all 28 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
... moft confpicuous , even in outward shape , Where dawns the high expreffion of a mind : By steps conducting our inraptur'd fearch 455 460 465 479 475 Το To that eternal origin , whose power , Through all 28 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. To that eternal origin , whose power , Through all the unbounded symmetry of things , Like rays effulging from the parent fun , This endlefs mixture of her charms diffus'd . 480 ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. To that eternal origin , whose power , Through all the unbounded symmetry of things , Like rays effulging from the parent fun , This endlefs mixture of her charms diffus'd . 480 ...
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... whose dictates bind Affenting reafon , the benignant 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 ...
... whose dictates bind Affenting reafon , the benignant 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 ...
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