The Works of the British Poets: Selected and Chronologically Arranged from Ben Johnson to Beattie. With Biographical and Critical Notices, 1. köideD. Appleton & Company, 1866 |
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... heavenly bow . Swift as light thoughts their empty career run , Thy race is finish'd when begun ; Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of Earth shalt reach as soon as he . Thou in the Moon's bright chariot , proud and ...
... heavenly bow . Swift as light thoughts their empty career run , Thy race is finish'd when begun ; Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of Earth shalt reach as soon as he . Thou in the Moon's bright chariot , proud and ...
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... heavenly habitants Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds , And sits as safe as in a senate - house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds , His few books , or his beads , or maple dish , Or do his grey hairs any violence ? But ...
... heavenly habitants Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds , And sits as safe as in a senate - house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds , His few books , or his beads , or maple dish , Or do his grey hairs any violence ? But ...
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... heavenly Muse , Storied of old in high immortal verse , Of dire chimeras , and enchanted isles , And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell ; for such there be , but unbelief is blind . 570 Then down the lawns I ran with headlong ...
... heavenly Muse , Storied of old in high immortal verse , Of dire chimeras , and enchanted isles , And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell ; for such there be , but unbelief is blind . 570 Then down the lawns I ran with headlong ...
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... heavenly Muse , that on the secret top Of Oreb , or of Sinai , didst inspire That shepherd , who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning , how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos : Or , if Sion hill 1010 Delight thee more ...
... heavenly Muse , that on the secret top Of Oreb , or of Sinai , didst inspire That shepherd , who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning , how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos : Or , if Sion hill 1010 Delight thee more ...
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... heavenly essences Can perish : for the mind and spirit remains Invincible , and vigor soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqueror ( whom I now Of force ...
... heavenly essences Can perish : for the mind and spirit remains Invincible , and vigor soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqueror ( whom I now Of force ...
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