Preface. Poems on several occasions. An essay on Virgil's GeorgicsJ. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... fires ! Slow comes the verse , that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected fuits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the difmal night , that gave My foul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
... fires ! Slow comes the verse , that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected fuits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the difmal night , that gave My foul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
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... fires rage most , and loudeft engines play . Namure's late terrors and deftruction show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with juft revenge , can do : Where Where once a thoufand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded 12 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
... fires rage most , and loudeft engines play . Namure's late terrors and deftruction show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with juft revenge , can do : Where Where once a thoufand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded 12 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
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... fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , [ flow'd . And planks , and arms , and men , promiscuous Spain's numerous fleet that perifh'd on our coast , Cou'd scarce a longer line of battle boast , The winds could hardly ...
... fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , [ flow'd . And planks , and arms , and men , promiscuous Spain's numerous fleet that perifh'd on our coast , Cou'd scarce a longer line of battle boast , The winds could hardly ...
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... fire [ retire . Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames disperst on ev'ry shore ? Who can defcribe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from fea to fea ...
... fire [ retire . Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames disperst on ev'ry shore ? Who can defcribe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from fea to fea ...
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... yew - tree flourish near , Nor rotten marshes send out fteams of mire ; Nor burning crabs grow red , and crackle in the fire . I Nor Nor neighb'ring caves return the dying found , Nor echoing 22 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
... yew - tree flourish near , Nor rotten marshes send out fteams of mire ; Nor burning crabs grow red , and crackle in the fire . I Nor Nor neighb'ring caves return the dying found , Nor echoing 22 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
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Страница 55 - I look for streams immortaliz'd in song. That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
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