The Works of the English Poets: BlackmoreH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... rise : I would th ' Eternal from his works affert , And fing the wonders of creating art . While I this unexampled task essay , Pafs awful gulphs , and beat iny painful way ; Celestial Dove ! divine affiftance bring , FO 15 Suftain me ...
... rise : I would th ' Eternal from his works affert , And fing the wonders of creating art . While I this unexampled task essay , Pafs awful gulphs , and beat iny painful way ; Celestial Dove ! divine affiftance bring , FO 15 Suftain me ...
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... rise From lakes and feas , and fill the lower skies : These when condens'd the airy region pours On the dry earth in rain , or gentle showers ; Th ' infinuating drops fink through the fand , And pafs the porous ftrainers of the land ...
... rise From lakes and feas , and fill the lower skies : These when condens'd the airy region pours On the dry earth in rain , or gentle showers ; Th ' infinuating drops fink through the fand , And pafs the porous ftrainers of the land ...
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... rise more fublime , Than thofe erected in a temperate clime . Had not the Author his provifion made , By which your air is cool'd , your fun allay'd , Destroy'd by too intense a flame , the land Had lain a parch'd inhofpitable fand ...
... rise more fublime , Than thofe erected in a temperate clime . Had not the Author his provifion made , By which your air is cool'd , your fun allay'd , Destroy'd by too intense a flame , the land Had lain a parch'd inhofpitable fand ...
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... rise , 135 From woods the whales , and lions from the skies . Th ' elated bard here , with a conqueror's air , Difdainful fmiles , and bids his foes defpair . But , Carus , here you ufe poetic charms , And not affail us with the ...
... rise , 135 From woods the whales , and lions from the skies . Th ' elated bard here , with a conqueror's air , Difdainful fmiles , and bids his foes defpair . But , Carus , here you ufe poetic charms , And not affail us with the ...
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... rise of mankind given by the ancient poets . The opinions of many of the Greek philofophers concerning that point not lefs ridiculous . The affertion of Epicurus and his followers , that our first parents were the fpontaneous production ...
... rise of mankind given by the ancient poets . The opinions of many of the Greek philofophers concerning that point not lefs ridiculous . The affertion of Epicurus and his followers , that our first parents were the fpontaneous production ...
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