The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... bear . 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 ...
... bear . 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 ...
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... bear , Though vines delude the promise of the year ; Yet though the olive should not yield her oil , Nor the parch'd glebe reward the peasant's toil ; Though the tir'd ox beneath his labours fall , And herds in millions perish from the ...
... bear , Though vines delude the promise of the year ; Yet though the olive should not yield her oil , Nor the parch'd glebe reward the peasant's toil ; Though the tir'd ox beneath his labours fall , And herds in millions perish from the ...
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... bear When hung self - balanc'd in the fluid air ? Why the vast tides sometimes with wanton play In shining mazes ... bears eternal sway , Or where the source of everlasting day ? Say , why the thriving hail with rushing sound Pours from ...
... bear When hung self - balanc'd in the fluid air ? Why the vast tides sometimes with wanton play In shining mazes ... bears eternal sway , Or where the source of everlasting day ? Say , why the thriving hail with rushing sound Pours from ...
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... bear , And breathe it to her kindred angels there ! But see ! the Night displays her starry train , Soft silver dews impearl the glittering plain ; ' Why flames the star on Walpole's generous breast ? |. In gentle sighs the softly ...
... bear , And breathe it to her kindred angels there ! But see ! the Night displays her starry train , Soft silver dews impearl the glittering plain ; ' Why flames the star on Walpole's generous breast ? |. In gentle sighs the softly ...
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... bear ; Tell me , ye victors , what strange charms ye find In Conquest , that destruction of mankind ! Unenvy'd may your laurels ever grow , That never flourish but in human woe , If never Earth the wreath triumphal bears , Till drench'd ...
... bear ; Tell me , ye victors , what strange charms ye find In Conquest , that destruction of mankind ! Unenvy'd may your laurels ever grow , That never flourish but in human woe , If never Earth the wreath triumphal bears , Till drench'd ...
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