The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 - English poetry |
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... Pursue thy thread ; the spindle runs below . A creature fond and changing , fair and vain , The creature woman , rifes now to reign . New beauty blooms , a beauty form'd to fly ; New love begins , a love produc'd to die ; New parts ...
... Pursue thy thread ; the spindle runs below . A creature fond and changing , fair and vain , The creature woman , rifes now to reign . New beauty blooms , a beauty form'd to fly ; New love begins , a love produc'd to die ; New parts ...
Page 37
... pursued in vain , Fled swift of foot across the neighbouring plain , Hung o'er a brink , his eager thirst to cool , And dipp'd his whiskers in the standing pool ; When near a courteous Frog advanc'd his head ; And from the waters ...
... pursued in vain , Fled swift of foot across the neighbouring plain , Hung o'er a brink , his eager thirst to cool , And dipp'd his whiskers in the standing pool ; When near a courteous Frog advanc'd his head ; And from the waters ...
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... pursued . Till fallen in death he lies , a fhattering stone Sounds on the neck , and crushes all the bone . His blood pollutes the verdure of the plain , And from his noftrils burfts the gufhing brain . Lychopinax with Borborocates ...
... pursued . Till fallen in death he lies , a fhattering stone Sounds on the neck , and crushes all the bone . His blood pollutes the verdure of the plain , And from his noftrils burfts the gufhing brain . Lychopinax with Borborocates ...
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... pursuing fear , And mad confufion , through their hoft appear : O'er the wild waste with headlong flight they go , Or creep conceal'd in vaulted holes below . But down Olympus to the weftern feas Far - fhooting Phoebus drove with ...
... pursuing fear , And mad confufion , through their hoft appear : O'er the wild waste with headlong flight they go , Or creep conceal'd in vaulted holes below . But down Olympus to the weftern feas Far - fhooting Phoebus drove with ...
Page 109
... pursue their way , I'll overtake them , I'll divide the prey , My luft I ' ll fatisfy , mine anger cloy , My fword I'll brandish , and their name destroy . How How wildly threats their anger , hark ! above , MOSES . 109.
... pursue their way , I'll overtake them , I'll divide the prey , My luft I ' ll fatisfy , mine anger cloy , My fword I'll brandish , and their name destroy . How How wildly threats their anger , hark ! above , MOSES . 109.
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