The Works of the English Poets, 1–2. köideSamuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) H. Baldwin, 1779 - 315 pages |
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... bright ardours ; every power unfold , And rife into fublimities of thought .. 635 Stars teach , as well as fhine . At nature's birth , Thus their commiffion ran- " Be kind to man . ” , Where art thou , poor benighted traveller ! The ...
... bright ardours ; every power unfold , And rife into fublimities of thought .. 635 Stars teach , as well as fhine . At nature's birth , Thus their commiffion ran- " Be kind to man . ” , Where art thou , poor benighted traveller ! The ...
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... Bright legions swarm unseen , and fing , unheard By mortal ear , the glorious Architect , 765 In This His univerfal temple hung With luftres , with innumerable lights , That shed religion on the foul ; at once , The Temple , and the ...
... Bright legions swarm unseen , and fing , unheard By mortal ear , the glorious Architect , 765 In This His univerfal temple hung With luftres , with innumerable lights , That shed religion on the foul ; at once , The Temple , and the ...
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... bright mirror His own hands have made , Here we fee fomething like the face of God . Seems it not then enough , to fay , Lorenzo ! To man abandon'd , " Haft thou feen the fkies ? " 940 And yet , so thwarted nature's kind defign By 5 And ...
... bright mirror His own hands have made , Here we fee fomething like the face of God . Seems it not then enough , to fay , Lorenzo ! To man abandon'd , " Haft thou feen the fkies ? " 940 And yet , so thwarted nature's kind defign By 5 And ...
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... bright footsteps here below ; To walk in worth ftill brighter than the skies . There they contracted their contempt of Earth ; Of hopes eternal kindled , There , the fire ; There , as in near approach , they glow'd , and grew ( Great ...
... bright footsteps here below ; To walk in worth ftill brighter than the skies . There they contracted their contempt of Earth ; Of hopes eternal kindled , There , the fire ; There , as in near approach , they glow'd , and grew ( Great ...
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... bright ; Here , un - endanger'd in health , wealth , or fame , Range through the faireft , and the Sultan fcorn . He , wife as Thou , no Crefcent holds fo fair , As that , which on his turbant awes a world ; And thinks the Moon is proud ...
... bright ; Here , un - endanger'd in health , wealth , or fame , Range through the faireft , and the Sultan fcorn . He , wife as Thou , no Crefcent holds fo fair , As that , which on his turbant awes a world ; And thinks the Moon is proud ...
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