The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... rage ! - Oh ! Heaven ! I faint - I die ! - The yielding powers of Israel fly ! Now banner'd hosts surround the walls Of Sion ! now she sinks , she falls ! - Ah Sion ! how for thee I mourn ! What pangs for thee I feel ! Ah ! how art thou ...
... rage ! - Oh ! Heaven ! I faint - I die ! - The yielding powers of Israel fly ! Now banner'd hosts surround the walls Of Sion ! now she sinks , she falls ! - Ah Sion ! how for thee I mourn ! What pangs for thee I feel ! Ah ! how art thou ...
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... rage ; There palaces and hallow'd domes display Majestic ruins , awful in decay ! Thy very dust , though undistinguish'd trod , Compos'd , perhaps , some hero , great and good , Who nobly for his country lost his blood ! Ev'n with the ...
... rage ; There palaces and hallow'd domes display Majestic ruins , awful in decay ! Thy very dust , though undistinguish'd trod , Compos'd , perhaps , some hero , great and good , Who nobly for his country lost his blood ! Ev'n with the ...
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... rage , ye beasts , for- DAMON . SAY , while each scene so beautiful appears , Why heaves thy bosom , and why flow thy tears ? See ! from the clouds the spring descends in showers , The painted vallies laugh with rising flowers : Smooth ...
... rage , ye beasts , for- DAMON . SAY , while each scene so beautiful appears , Why heaves thy bosom , and why flow thy tears ? See ! from the clouds the spring descends in showers , The painted vallies laugh with rising flowers : Smooth ...
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... rage thy darts inspire , When too much beauty kindles too much fire ! Those darts , to jealous rage stern Herod drove ; It was a crime , but crime of too much love ! Yet if condemn'd he falls - with pitying eyes Behold his injur'd ...
... rage thy darts inspire , When too much beauty kindles too much fire ! Those darts , to jealous rage stern Herod drove ; It was a crime , but crime of too much love ! Yet if condemn'd he falls - with pitying eyes Behold his injur'd ...
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... rage , I rail , th ' extremes of anger prove , Nay , almost hate ! -then love thee beyond love ! Pity , kind Heaven , and right an injur'd maid ! Yet , oh yet , spare the dear deceiver's head ! If from the sultry suns at noon - tide ...
... rage , I rail , th ' extremes of anger prove , Nay , almost hate ! -then love thee beyond love ! Pity , kind Heaven , and right an injur'd maid ! Yet , oh yet , spare the dear deceiver's head ! If from the sultry suns at noon - tide ...
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Adrastus ancient Bavius beauty behold beneath blest breast breath bright Britons charms clouds courser critics Cynthus death deep delight dreadful Dulness Dunciad Earth edition Essay on Criticism Ev'n eyes fair fame fate fire flame flood fools genius glory goddess grace Greece groves hand happy heart Heaven hero Homer honour Iliad Jove king labour live lord lord Bolingbroke lyre mankind mighty mind mortal Muse Nature never night numbers nymph o'er once passion peace plain pleas'd poem poet Pope praise pride proud racter rage reign rise Rome round sacred Sappho satire scene shade shine shore sighs sing skies smile soft song soul spring streams sweet swell Swift tears tempest thee thine thou thought thunder toil trembling truth verse Virgil virgin virtue waves wild winds wings youth