The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... divine Of all heroic deeds and fair defires ! O ! let the breath of thy extended praise Inspire my kindling bofom to the height Of this untempted theme . Nor be my thoughts , Prefumptuous counted , if amid the calm That fooths this ...
... divine Of all heroic deeds and fair defires ! O ! let the breath of thy extended praise Inspire my kindling bofom to the height Of this untempted theme . Nor be my thoughts , Prefumptuous counted , if amid the calm That fooths this ...
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... divine Through endless forms of being . Each inhal'd From him its portion of the vital flame , 315 In measure fuch , that , from the wide complex Of coexiftent orders , one might rife , 320 One order , all - involving and intire . He ...
... divine Through endless forms of being . Each inhal'd From him its portion of the vital flame , 315 In measure fuch , that , from the wide complex Of coexiftent orders , one might rife , 320 One order , all - involving and intire . He ...
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... divine conceptions . Nor content , By one exertion of creative power His goodness to reveal ; through every age , Through evrey moment up the tract of time His parent - hand with ever - new increase Of happiness and virtue has adorn'd ...
... divine conceptions . Nor content , By one exertion of creative power His goodness to reveal ; through every age , Through evrey moment up the tract of time His parent - hand with ever - new increase Of happiness and virtue has adorn'd ...
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... divine , in heaven or earth , Nought lovely , nought propitious comes to pafs , Nor hope , nor praise , nor honour . Her the fire 385 Gave it in charge to rear the blooming mind , The folded powers to open , to direct The growth ...
... divine , in heaven or earth , Nought lovely , nought propitious comes to pafs , Nor hope , nor praise , nor honour . Her the fire 385 Gave it in charge to rear the blooming mind , The folded powers to open , to direct The growth ...
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... divine . She ceas'd ; a voice more awful thus reply'd . O thou ! in whom for ever I delight , Fairer than all the inhabitants of heaven , 470 Beft image of thy author ! far from thee Be disappointment , or distaste , or blame ; Who foon ...
... divine . She ceas'd ; a voice more awful thus reply'd . O thou ! in whom for ever I delight , Fairer than all the inhabitants of heaven , 470 Beft image of thy author ! far from thee Be disappointment , or distaste , or blame ; Who foon ...
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