The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, JohnsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... leave Lethe's brink , Obsequious to the Muse and me ; For once endure the pain to think , Oh ! sweet insensibility ! Sister of peace and indolence , Bring , Muse , bring numbers soft and slow , Elaborately void of sense , And sweetly ...
... leave Lethe's brink , Obsequious to the Muse and me ; For once endure the pain to think , Oh ! sweet insensibility ! Sister of peace and indolence , Bring , Muse , bring numbers soft and slow , Elaborately void of sense , And sweetly ...
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... Leave the Parnassian shades , The joyful Hymeneal sing , And to a lovelier fair Than fiction can devise , or eloquence declare , Your vocal tributes bring . And you , ye winged choristers , that fly In all the pensile gardens of the sky ...
... Leave the Parnassian shades , The joyful Hymeneal sing , And to a lovelier fair Than fiction can devise , or eloquence declare , Your vocal tributes bring . And you , ye winged choristers , that fly In all the pensile gardens of the sky ...
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... leave behind ev'n Chaos ; it shall come When all the armies of the elements Shall war against themselves , and mutual rage To make perdition triumph ; it shall come , When the capacious atmosphere above Shall in sulphureous thunders ...
... leave behind ev'n Chaos ; it shall come When all the armies of the elements Shall war against themselves , and mutual rage To make perdition triumph ; it shall come , When the capacious atmosphere above Shall in sulphureous thunders ...
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... leave behind ev'n Chaos ; tho ' the air With all the elements must pass away , Vain as an ideot's dream ; tho ' the huge rocks , That brandish the tall cedars on their tops , With humbler vales must to perdition yield ; Tho ' the gilt ...
... leave behind ev'n Chaos ; tho ' the air With all the elements must pass away , Vain as an ideot's dream ; tho ' the huge rocks , That brandish the tall cedars on their tops , With humbler vales must to perdition yield ; Tho ' the gilt ...
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... leave , who then's her pilot ? Who points her passage thro ' the pathless void To realms from us remote , to us unknown ? Her science is the science of her God . Not the magnetic index to the north E'er ascertains her course , nor buoy ...
... leave , who then's her pilot ? Who points her passage thro ' the pathless void To realms from us remote , to us unknown ? Her science is the science of her God . Not the magnetic index to the north E'er ascertains her course , nor buoy ...
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