The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... thunder roars . When through the mighty flood He led the murmuring crowd , What ail'd the rivers that they backward fled ? Why was the mighty flood afraid ? March'd he against the rivers ? or was he , Thou mighty Flood ! displeas'd at ...
... thunder roars . When through the mighty flood He led the murmuring crowd , What ail'd the rivers that they backward fled ? Why was the mighty flood afraid ? March'd he against the rivers ? or was he , Thou mighty Flood ! displeas'd at ...
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... thunder spoke the God . Cherubs and seraphs from celestial bowers , Ten thousand thousand ! bright ethereal powers ! Ministrant round , their radiant files unfold , Arm'd in eternal adamant , and gold ! Whirlwinds and thundrous storms ...
... thunder spoke the God . Cherubs and seraphs from celestial bowers , Ten thousand thousand ! bright ethereal powers ! Ministrant round , their radiant files unfold , Arm'd in eternal adamant , and gold ! Whirlwinds and thundrous storms ...
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... thunder arm the generous horse , Add nervous limbs , or swiftness for the course ? Fleet as the wind , he shoots along the plain , And knows no check , nor hears the curbing rein ; His fiery eye - balls , formidably bright , Dart a ...
... thunder arm the generous horse , Add nervous limbs , or swiftness for the course ? Fleet as the wind , he shoots along the plain , And knows no check , nor hears the curbing rein ; His fiery eye - balls , formidably bright , Dart a ...
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... thunder roars , Butlets the bark , and whirls it from the shores . O Heaven ! by what vain passions man is sway'd , Proud of his reason , by his will betray'd ! Blindly he wanders in pursuit of Vice , And hates confinement , though in ...
... thunder roars , Butlets the bark , and whirls it from the shores . O Heaven ! by what vain passions man is sway'd , Proud of his reason , by his will betray'd ! Blindly he wanders in pursuit of Vice , And hates confinement , though in ...
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... thunder roars , From their foundations hurls imperial towers : So rush the globes with many a fiery round , Tear up the rock , or rend the stedfast mound . Death shakes aloft her dart , and o'er her prey Stalks with dire joy , and marks ...
... thunder roars , From their foundations hurls imperial towers : So rush the globes with many a fiery round , Tear up the rock , or rend the stedfast mound . Death shakes aloft her dart , and o'er her prey Stalks with dire joy , and marks ...
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