Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J.Woodward, 1836 |
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... divine , All - knowing Goddesses ! immortal nine ! Since Earth's wide regions , Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide nothing from your sight , ( We , wretched mortals ! lost in doubts below , But guess by rumour , and ...
... divine , All - knowing Goddesses ! immortal nine ! Since Earth's wide regions , Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide nothing from your sight , ( We , wretched mortals ! lost in doubts below , But guess by rumour , and ...
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... divine . And thou , blest maid ! attendant on his doom , Pensive has follow'd to the silent tomb , Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore , Not parted long , and now to part no more ! Go , then , where only bliss sincere is ...
... divine . And thou , blest maid ! attendant on his doom , Pensive has follow'd to the silent tomb , Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore , Not parted long , and now to part no more ! Go , then , where only bliss sincere is ...
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... divine . But if in noble minds some dregs remain , Not yet purged off , of spleen and sour disdain ; But sense survived , when merry jests were past ; 460 Discharge that rage on more provoking crimes , For rising merit will buoy up at ...
... divine . But if in noble minds some dregs remain , Not yet purged off , of spleen and sour disdain ; But sense survived , when merry jests were past ; 460 Discharge that rage on more provoking crimes , For rising merit will buoy up at ...
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... divine the British throne . ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair , Not a less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the ...
... divine the British throne . ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair , Not a less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the ...
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... divine came mended from that tongue . From lips like those what precept fail'd to move ? Too soon they taught me ' twas no sin to love : Back through the paths of pleasing sense I ran , Nor wish'd an angel whom I loved a man . Dim and ...
... divine came mended from that tongue . From lips like those what precept fail'd to move ? Too soon they taught me ' twas no sin to love : Back through the paths of pleasing sense I ran , Nor wish'd an angel whom I loved a man . Dim and ...
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