A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Том 1J. Hughs, 1765 |
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... Truth's banner wav'd in open air The monster Superstition fled , And hid in fhades its Gorgon head ; And lawless pow'r , the long - kept field , By reafon quell'd , was forc'd to yield . This nurse of arts , and freedom's fence To chain ...
... Truth's banner wav'd in open air The monster Superstition fled , And hid in fhades its Gorgon head ; And lawless pow'r , the long - kept field , By reafon quell'd , was forc'd to yield . This nurse of arts , and freedom's fence To chain ...
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... truths deny , And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence ? That fuperftition mayn't create , And club its ills with thofe of fate , I many a notion take to task , Made dreadful by its visor - mask . Thus fcruple ...
... truths deny , And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence ? That fuperftition mayn't create , And club its ills with thofe of fate , I many a notion take to task , Made dreadful by its visor - mask . Thus fcruple ...
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In Six Volumes. XII . It made a virgin put on guile , Truth's image break her word , A Lucia's face forbear to fmile , A Venus kill her bird . JOVE and SEMEL E. By the Same . Occafioned by a Lady's faying , that none of the ancient ...
In Six Volumes. XII . It made a virgin put on guile , Truth's image break her word , A Lucia's face forbear to fmile , A Venus kill her bird . JOVE and SEMEL E. By the Same . Occafioned by a Lady's faying , that none of the ancient ...
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... Truth fublimate may here be feen Extracted from the parts terrene . In these is fhewn , how men obtain What of Prometheus poets feign : To fcripture - plainness dress is brought , And speech , apparel to the thought . They hifs from ...
... Truth fublimate may here be feen Extracted from the parts terrene . In these is fhewn , how men obtain What of Prometheus poets feign : To fcripture - plainness dress is brought , And speech , apparel to the thought . They hifs from ...
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... truths themselves reveal , Bid us to follow what we feel . The world can't hear the small still voice , Such is its ... truth's pursuit to caufe delay Throw golden apples in his way . Place me , O heav'n , in fome retreat , There let ...
... truths themselves reveal , Bid us to follow what we feel . The world can't hear the small still voice , Such is its ... truth's pursuit to caufe delay Throw golden apples in his way . Place me , O heav'n , in fome retreat , There let ...
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Страница 131 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
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Страница 265 - On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.