The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... VARIATION . ! I see his sword wave with redoubled ire ! Ah ! has it set the very clouds on fire ? The clouds burst down in deluges of showers ; Fierce lightning flames , vindictive thunder roars . When through the mighty flood He led ...
... VARIATION . ! I see his sword wave with redoubled ire ! Ah ! has it set the very clouds on fire ? The clouds burst down in deluges of showers ; Fierce lightning flames , vindictive thunder roars . When through the mighty flood He led ...
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... VARIATION . 3 The lovely Flora paints the Earth , And calls the morning flowers to birth : But you display a power more great ; She calls forth flowers , but you create . Aid me , ye Muses , while I loud proclaim BROOME'S POEMS . To ...
... VARIATION . 3 The lovely Flora paints the Earth , And calls the morning flowers to birth : But you display a power more great ; She calls forth flowers , but you create . Aid me , ye Muses , while I loud proclaim BROOME'S POEMS . To ...
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... VARIATION . • But tell me , mortal , when th ' Almighty said , " Be made , ye worlds ! " how worlds at once were When hosts ... VARIATIONS . The fowl , the fishes , to repose resign'd , All , all lie hush'd , and busy human - kind . The ...
... VARIATION . • But tell me , mortal , when th ' Almighty said , " Be made , ye worlds ! " how worlds at once were When hosts ... VARIATIONS . The fowl , the fishes , to repose resign'd , All , all lie hush'd , and busy human - kind . The ...
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... VARIATION . " He mocks the beating storms and wintery showers , Making night hideous , as he sternly roars . DAPHNIS AND LYCIDAS : A PASTORAL . THEY SING THE DIFFERENT SUCCESS AND ABSENCE OF THEIR LOVES . TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE ...
... VARIATION . " He mocks the beating storms and wintery showers , Making night hideous , as he sternly roars . DAPHNIS AND LYCIDAS : A PASTORAL . THEY SING THE DIFFERENT SUCCESS AND ABSENCE OF THEIR LOVES . TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE ...
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... VARIATION . Haste , Lycidas , to fold , & c . Te doctarum hederæ , & c . AN EPISTLE TO MY FRIEND MR . ELIJAH FENTON , AUTHOR OF MARIAMNE , A TRAGEDY . 1726 . WHY art thou so slow to strike th ' harmonious Averse to sing , who know'st to ...
... VARIATION . Haste , Lycidas , to fold , & c . Te doctarum hederæ , & c . AN EPISTLE TO MY FRIEND MR . ELIJAH FENTON , AUTHOR OF MARIAMNE , A TRAGEDY . 1726 . WHY art thou so slow to strike th ' harmonious Averse to sing , who know'st to ...
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