Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieT. Wardle, 1840 - 807 pages |
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... Fate ! Hence , Love himself , that tyrant of my days ! Which intercepts my coming praise . Come , my best friends , my books ! and lead me on ; " Tis time that I were gone . Welcome , great Stagyrite ! and teach me now All I was born to ...
... Fate ! Hence , Love himself , that tyrant of my days ! Which intercepts my coming praise . Come , my best friends , my books ! and lead me on ; " Tis time that I were gone . Welcome , great Stagyrite ! and teach me now All I was born to ...
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... fate . Th ' antiperistasis of age More inflam'd thy amorous rage ; Thy silver hairs yielded me more Than even golden curls before . Had I the power of creation , As I have of generation , Where I the matter must obey , And cannot work ...
... fate . Th ' antiperistasis of age More inflam'd thy amorous rage ; Thy silver hairs yielded me more Than even golden curls before . Had I the power of creation , As I have of generation , Where I the matter must obey , And cannot work ...
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... fate the strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail , Nine times the space that measures day and night Since through experience of this great event To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd , rolling in the ...
... fate the strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail , Nine times the space that measures day and night Since through experience of this great event To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd , rolling in the ...
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... Fate shall yield To fickle Chance , and Chaos judge the strife : The former , vain to hope , argues as vain The latter : for what place can be for us Within Heaven's bound , unless Heaven's Lord supreme We overpower ? Suppose he should ...
... Fate shall yield To fickle Chance , and Chaos judge the strife : The former , vain to hope , argues as vain The latter : for what place can be for us Within Heaven's bound , unless Heaven's Lord supreme We overpower ? Suppose he should ...
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... fate , Fix'd fate , free will , foreknowledge absolute , And found no end , in wandering mazes lost . Of good and evil much they argued then , Of happiness and final misery , Passion and apathy , and glory and shame , Vain wisdom all ...
... fate , Fix'd fate , free will , foreknowledge absolute , And found no end , in wandering mazes lost . Of good and evil much they argued then , Of happiness and final misery , Passion and apathy , and glory and shame , Vain wisdom all ...
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