The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... hear ! Sun , stand thou still : thou Moon , thy course for- Ah , Sun , thy wheels obedient stay , [ bear : Doubling the splendours of the wondrous day , The nimble - footed Minutes cease to run .... And urge the lazy Hours on . Time ...
... hear ! Sun , stand thou still : thou Moon , thy course for- Ah , Sun , thy wheels obedient stay , [ bear : Doubling the splendours of the wondrous day , The nimble - footed Minutes cease to run .... And urge the lazy Hours on . Time ...
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... hear their shouts ! their clashing arms ! Now the conflicting hosts engage , With more than mortal rage ! - Oh ! Heaven ! I faint - I die ! - The yielding powers of Israel fly ! Now banner'd hosts surround the walls Of Sion ! now she ...
... hear their shouts ! their clashing arms ! Now the conflicting hosts engage , With more than mortal rage ! - Oh ! Heaven ! I faint - I die ! - The yielding powers of Israel fly ! Now banner'd hosts surround the walls Of Sion ! now she ...
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... hear with joy the clanging jar Of trumpets , that alarm to war ; While matrons tremble at the breath That calls their sons to arms and death . The sportsman , train'd in storms , defies The chilling blast , and freezing skies ...
... hear with joy the clanging jar Of trumpets , that alarm to war ; While matrons tremble at the breath That calls their sons to arms and death . The sportsman , train'd in storms , defies The chilling blast , and freezing skies ...
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... hear the voice to slumbering prophets given , Or gaze on visions from the throne of Heaven . But nobler yet , far nobler scenes advance ! Why leap the mountains ? why the forests dance ? Why flashes glory from the golden spheres ...
... hear the voice to slumbering prophets given , Or gaze on visions from the throne of Heaven . But nobler yet , far nobler scenes advance ! Why leap the mountains ? why the forests dance ? Why flashes glory from the golden spheres ...
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... hear from Earth such heart - felt raptures rise , As , when they sing , suspended hold the skies : Or , nobly rising in fair Virtue's cause , From thy own life transcribe th ' unerring laws ; Teach a bad world beneath her sway to bend ...
... hear from Earth such heart - felt raptures rise , As , when they sing , suspended hold the skies : Or , nobly rising in fair Virtue's cause , From thy own life transcribe th ' unerring laws ; Teach a bad world beneath her sway to bend ...
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