A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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... kind of writing . The fubje & t is rather argumentative than poetical ; it is , however , a compofition of great excellence in its kind . The Hind and Panther , the largest of all his original poents , exhibits the most correct fpecimen ...
... kind of writing . The fubje & t is rather argumentative than poetical ; it is , however , a compofition of great excellence in its kind . The Hind and Panther , the largest of all his original poents , exhibits the most correct fpecimen ...
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... kind does bring , - Who Lafe in numbers cuff the noble bird . LXXXVIII . Among the Dutch thus Albemarle did fåre : He could not conquer , and difdain'd to fly ; Paft hope of falety , ' twas his latest care , Like falling Cefar ...
... kind does bring , - Who Lafe in numbers cuff the noble bird . LXXXVIII . Among the Dutch thus Albemarle did fåre : He could not conquer , and difdain'd to fly ; Paft hope of falety , ' twas his latest care , Like falling Cefar ...
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... kind , His limbs are crippled , and his body shakes ; Yet his hard mind , which all this buftle makes , No pity of its poor companion takes What gravity can hold from laughing out , To fee him drag his feeble legs about , Like hounds ...
... kind , His limbs are crippled , and his body shakes ; Yet his hard mind , which all this buftle makes , No pity of its poor companion takes What gravity can hold from laughing out , To fee him drag his feeble legs about , Like hounds ...
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... kind conjunction of affifting stars . Here , labouring Mufe , thofe glorious chiefs relate , That turn'd the doubtful fcale of David's fate ; The rest of that illuftrious band rehearse ,. Immortaliz'd in laurel'd Alaph's verfe : Hard ...
... kind conjunction of affifting stars . Here , labouring Mufe , thofe glorious chiefs relate , That turn'd the doubtful fcale of David's fate ; The rest of that illuftrious band rehearse ,. Immortaliz'd in laurel'd Alaph's verfe : Hard ...
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... kind : For happiness was never to be found ; But vanish'd from them like enchanted ground . One thought content the good to be enjoy'd ; This every little accident destroy'd : The wifer madmen did for virtue toil : A thorny , or at beft ...
... kind : For happiness was never to be found ; But vanish'd from them like enchanted ground . One thought content the good to be enjoy'd ; This every little accident destroy'd : The wifer madmen did for virtue toil : A thorny , or at beft ...
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