Minor English Poets, 1660-1780: A Selection from Alexander Chalmers' The English Poets, 1. köideDavid P. French B. Blom, 1967 |
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... hath crost that willing score ) A father , gave me a godfather too ; And I'm more glad , because it gave me you ; Whom I may rightly think , and term , to be Of the whole city an epitome . I thank my careful Fate , which found out one ...
... hath crost that willing score ) A father , gave me a godfather too ; And I'm more glad , because it gave me you ; Whom I may rightly think , and term , to be Of the whole city an epitome . I thank my careful Fate , which found out one ...
Page 233
... hath , like a plant , seasons of flourishing and decay ; like plants , is removed from one soil to another , and by being so transplanted , doth often ga- ther vigour and increase . But as it is false husbandry to graft old branches ...
... hath , like a plant , seasons of flourishing and decay ; like plants , is removed from one soil to another , and by being so transplanted , doth often ga- ther vigour and increase . But as it is false husbandry to graft old branches ...
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... hath little prevailed ; for the world is in all regions reversed , or shaken by disobedience ; an engine with which the great angels ( for such were the devils , and had faculties much more sublimed than men ) believed they could ...
... hath little prevailed ; for the world is in all regions reversed , or shaken by disobedience ; an engine with which the great angels ( for such were the devils , and had faculties much more sublimed than men ) believed they could ...
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