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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... thought it was to Heav'n return'd . Tell me is the omen true , Shall the body follow too ? When first at Nature's early birth , Heav'n sent a man upon the Earth , Ev'n Eden was more fruitful found , When Adam came to till the ground ...
... thought it was to Heav'n return'd . Tell me is the omen true , Shall the body follow too ? When first at Nature's early birth , Heav'n sent a man upon the Earth , Ev'n Eden was more fruitful found , When Adam came to till the ground ...
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... thoughts , Luke vii . 41 , 42 , 43 . Or what can thoughts ( tho ' wild of wing they rove Thro ' the vast concave of th ... thought , That puissance immeasurably vast , And bounty inconceivable cou'd rest Content , exhausted with one week ...
... thoughts , Luke vii . 41 , 42 , 43 . Or what can thoughts ( tho ' wild of wing they rove Thro ' the vast concave of th ... thought , That puissance immeasurably vast , And bounty inconceivable cou'd rest Content , exhausted with one week ...
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... thought More glaring evidence demand ; behold , Where yon pellucid populous hive presents A yet uncopied model to the world ! There Machiavel in the reflecting glass May read himself a fool . The chymist there May with astonishment ...
... thought More glaring evidence demand ; behold , Where yon pellucid populous hive presents A yet uncopied model to the world ! There Machiavel in the reflecting glass May read himself a fool . The chymist there May with astonishment ...
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... thought , From thy aerial citadel descend , And ( for thou canst ) assist me . Bring with thee Thy all - creative talisman ; with thee The active spirits ideal , tow'ring flights , That hover o'er the muse - resounding groves , And all ...
... thought , From thy aerial citadel descend , And ( for thou canst ) assist me . Bring with thee Thy all - creative talisman ; with thee The active spirits ideal , tow'ring flights , That hover o'er the muse - resounding groves , And all ...
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... thought capable of punning , I should imagine that the word procure , in this place , is made use of in preference to an appellation given to our hero in the commencement of this poem , viz . a pimp ; but the reader will please to ...
... thought capable of punning , I should imagine that the word procure , in this place , is made use of in preference to an appellation given to our hero in the commencement of this poem , viz . a pimp ; but the reader will please to ...
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