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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... rise — and still to rise →→→ Better to bow to men , than kneel to God . Behold where poor unmansion'd Merit stands , All cold , ODES . 19 To the reverend and learned Dr Web- ster, occasioned by his Dialogues Anger and Forgiveness.
... rise — and still to rise →→→ Better to bow to men , than kneel to God . Behold where poor unmansion'd Merit stands , All cold , ODES . 19 To the reverend and learned Dr Web- ster, occasioned by his Dialogues Anger and Forgiveness.
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... rise , Oh ! how impatient are his joys ! Bring zephyrs to depaint his voice , Bring lightning for his eyes . He leaps , he springs , he flies into her arms , With joy intense , Feeds ev'ry sense , And sultanates o'er all her charms . Oh ...
... rise , Oh ! how impatient are his joys ! Bring zephyrs to depaint his voice , Bring lightning for his eyes . He leaps , he springs , he flies into her arms , With joy intense , Feeds ev'ry sense , And sultanates o'er all her charms . Oh ...
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... rise , Return it to it's native skies . CHORUS . Higher swell the sound , & c . & c . III . Music's a celestial art ; Cease to wonder at it's pow'r , Tho ' lifeless rocks to motion start , Tho ' trees dance lightly from the bow'r , Tho ...
... rise , Return it to it's native skies . CHORUS . Higher swell the sound , & c . & c . III . Music's a celestial art ; Cease to wonder at it's pow'r , Tho ' lifeless rocks to motion start , Tho ' trees dance lightly from the bow'r , Tho ...
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... rise to a degree of elevation , and then fall again , but with an uniform tenour , like the bird in Virgil , Radit iter liquidum , celeres neque commovet alas . I have been now for about three weeks in this scene of smoke and dust , and ...
... rise to a degree of elevation , and then fall again , but with an uniform tenour , like the bird in Virgil , Radit iter liquidum , celeres neque commovet alas . I have been now for about three weeks in this scene of smoke and dust , and ...
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... rise from filth the violet and rose ! From emptiness how softest music flows ! How absence to possession adds a grace , And modest vacancy to all gives place ? Contrasted when fair Nature's works we spy , More they allure the mind and ...
... rise from filth the violet and rose ! From emptiness how softest music flows ! How absence to possession adds a grace , And modest vacancy to all gives place ? Contrasted when fair Nature's works we spy , More they allure the mind and ...
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