The Works of the English Poets: J. Philips, Smith, and PomfretH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fate , rush on the toils Inextricable , nor will aught avail Their arts , or arms , or shapes of lovely hue ; The wafp infidious , and the buzzing drone , And butterfly proud of expanded wings Diftinct with gold , intangled in her ...
... fate , rush on the toils Inextricable , nor will aught avail Their arts , or arms , or shapes of lovely hue ; The wafp infidious , and the buzzing drone , And butterfly proud of expanded wings Diftinct with gold , intangled in her ...
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... fate Their maws with full repast ! -Another , warm'd With high ambition , and conceit of prowess Inherent , arrogantly thus prefum'd : What if this fword , full often drench'd in blood Of bafe antagonists , with griding edge Should now ...
... fate Their maws with full repast ! -Another , warm'd With high ambition , and conceit of prowess Inherent , arrogantly thus prefum'd : What if this fword , full often drench'd in blood Of bafe antagonists , with griding edge Should now ...
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... fate , If any arm , but Churchill's , had prevail'd ! ́ No need fuch boafts , or exprobrations false Of cowardice ; the military mound The British files tranfcend , in evil hour For their proud foes , that fondly brav'd their fates ...
... fate , If any arm , but Churchill's , had prevail'd ! ́ No need fuch boafts , or exprobrations false Of cowardice ; the military mound The British files tranfcend , in evil hour For their proud foes , that fondly brav'd their fates ...
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... fate On the firm land ; the rest , discomfited , And pusht by Marlborough's avengeful hand , * Leap plunging in the wide - extended flood . Bands numerous as the Memphian - føldiery- - That That fwell'd the Erythræan wave , when wall'd ...
... fate On the firm land ; the rest , discomfited , And pusht by Marlborough's avengeful hand , * Leap plunging in the wide - extended flood . Bands numerous as the Memphian - føldiery- - That That fwell'd the Erythræan wave , when wall'd ...
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... fate disjoin'd , Had thy prefiding star propitious fhone , Should't Churchill be ! but Heaven fevere cut fhort Their fpringing years , nor would this ifle fhould boast Gifts fo important ! them the Gallic fhades Surveying , read in ...
... fate disjoin'd , Had thy prefiding star propitious fhone , Should't Churchill be ! but Heaven fevere cut fhort Their fpringing years , nor would this ifle fhould boast Gifts fo important ! them the Gallic fhades Surveying , read in ...
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