A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Том 1J. Hughs, 1765 |
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... delight , Content to see the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er shatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs luxuriant cloath the harmless mine , Tame flocks afcend the breach without ...
... delight , Content to see the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er shatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs luxuriant cloath the harmless mine , Tame flocks afcend the breach without ...
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... delight to hear bold feraphs tell , How Michael battled , and the Dragon fell ? Or , mix'd with milder cherubim , to glow In hymns of love , not ill effay'd below ? Or doft thou warn poor mortals left behind , A task well fuited to thy ...
... delight to hear bold feraphs tell , How Michael battled , and the Dragon fell ? Or , mix'd with milder cherubim , to glow In hymns of love , not ill effay'd below ? Or doft thou warn poor mortals left behind , A task well fuited to thy ...
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... delight In dells and dales conceal'd from human fight : There hew'd their houses in the arching rock ; Or scoop'd the bofom of the blasted oak ; Or heard , o'ershadow'd by some shelving hill , The distant murmurs of the falling rill . D ...
... delight In dells and dales conceal'd from human fight : There hew'd their houses in the arching rock ; Or scoop'd the bofom of the blasted oak ; Or heard , o'ershadow'd by some shelving hill , The distant murmurs of the falling rill . D ...
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... delight , Slept all the morn , and punted half the night : But now , with fears and public cares poffefs'd , The church , the church , for - ever breaks my reft . The post - boy on my pillow I explore , And fift the news of every ...
... delight , Slept all the morn , and punted half the night : But now , with fears and public cares poffefs'd , The church , the church , for - ever breaks my reft . The post - boy on my pillow I explore , And fift the news of every ...
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... delight , Courting the war , and glowing for the fight , The new Salmoneus meets the Celtic thunderer . Ah , curfed pride ! infernal dream ! Which drove him to this wild extream , That duft a deity should seem ; Be thought , as through ...
... delight , Courting the war , and glowing for the fight , The new Salmoneus meets the Celtic thunderer . Ah , curfed pride ! infernal dream ! Which drove him to this wild extream , That duft a deity should seem ; Be thought , as through ...
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