The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... cloud Could his effulgent brightness shroud : Glory , and Majesty , and Power , March'd in a dreadful pomp before ... clouds burst down in deluges of showers ; Fierce lightning flames , vindictive thunder roars . When through the ...
... cloud Could his effulgent brightness shroud : Glory , and Majesty , and Power , March'd in a dreadful pomp before ... clouds burst down in deluges of showers ; Fierce lightning flames , vindictive thunder roars . When through the ...
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... clouds ; Then from his awful gloom the godhead spoke , And at his voice affrighted Nature shook . Vain man ! who boldly with dim Reason's ray Vies with his God , and rivals his full day ! But tell me now , say how this beauteous frame ...
... clouds ; Then from his awful gloom the godhead spoke , And at his voice affrighted Nature shook . Vain man ! who boldly with dim Reason's ray Vies with his God , and rivals his full day ! But tell me now , say how this beauteous frame ...
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... clouds imbibe the glittering beams ; Sweetly the varying colours fade or rise , And the vast arch embraces half the skies . Say , didst thou give the mighty seas their bars , Fill air with fowl , or light up Heaven with stars , Whose ...
... clouds imbibe the glittering beams ; Sweetly the varying colours fade or rise , And the vast arch embraces half the skies . Say , didst thou give the mighty seas their bars , Fill air with fowl , or light up Heaven with stars , Whose ...
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... clouds they hide Their haughty heads , but swell with barren pride ; And , while low vales in useful beauty lie , Heave their proud naked summits to the sky . In honour , as in place , ye great , transcend ! An angel fall'n ...
... clouds they hide Their haughty heads , but swell with barren pride ; And , while low vales in useful beauty lie , Heave their proud naked summits to the sky . In honour , as in place , ye great , transcend ! An angel fall'n ...
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... clouds are brighten'd by the god of day . So trees unapt to bear , by art refin'd , High o'er the ground with fruits adopted rise , With shoots ennobled of a generous kind , And lift their spreading honours to the skies . A DIALOGUE ...
... clouds are brighten'd by the god of day . So trees unapt to bear , by art refin'd , High o'er the ground with fruits adopted rise , With shoots ennobled of a generous kind , And lift their spreading honours to the skies . A DIALOGUE ...
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