The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... give to a disease , Adorn the pain , and make it please : Thus burning incense sheds perfumes , Still fragrant as it still consumer . Nor can even Sickness , which disarms All other nymphs , destroy your charms ; A thousand beauties you ...
... give to a disease , Adorn the pain , and make it please : Thus burning incense sheds perfumes , Still fragrant as it still consumer . Nor can even Sickness , which disarms All other nymphs , destroy your charms ; A thousand beauties you ...
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... give way . Dreadful it mounts , tempestuous in its flight , It sinks , it falls , Earth groans beneath its weight . Th ' imprison'd Deaths rush out in smoke and ûre , The mighty bleed , heaps crush'd on heaps expire . 6 The barriers ...
... give way . Dreadful it mounts , tempestuous in its flight , It sinks , it falls , Earth groans beneath its weight . Th ' imprison'd Deaths rush out in smoke and ûre , The mighty bleed , heaps crush'd on heaps expire . 6 The barriers ...
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... gives by halves ' , who hesitates to give . Thus , when an angel views mankind distrest , He feels compassion pleading in his breast ; Instant the heavenly guardian cleaves the skies , And , pleas'd to save , on wings of lightning flies ...
... gives by halves ' , who hesitates to give . Thus , when an angel views mankind distrest , He feels compassion pleading in his breast ; Instant the heavenly guardian cleaves the skies , And , pleas'd to save , on wings of lightning flies ...
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... give for show : To sanctify thy wealth , on worth employ Thy gold , and to a blessing turn the toy : Thus offerings ... gives the marble life , While Art with Nature holds a dubious strife , Adorns a rock with graces not its own , And ...
... give for show : To sanctify thy wealth , on worth employ Thy gold , and to a blessing turn the toy : Thus offerings ... gives the marble life , While Art with Nature holds a dubious strife , Adorns a rock with graces not its own , And ...
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... give a paler day ; Ten thousand stars adorn her glittering train , Fall when she falls , and rise with her again ... gives the furious whirlwind wings to fly , To rend the Earth , and wheel along the sky ; In circling eddies whirl'd , it ...
... give a paler day ; Ten thousand stars adorn her glittering train , Fall when she falls , and rise with her again ... gives the furious whirlwind wings to fly , To rend the Earth , and wheel along the sky ; In circling eddies whirl'd , it ...
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