Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical Notices |
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... stood on the bare strand , While the promiscuous cloud stood yet aloof . The chief were those , who , from the pit of Hell lost , If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal spirits ; or have ye chos'n this place After the toil of ...
... stood on the bare strand , While the promiscuous cloud stood yet aloof . The chief were those , who , from the pit of Hell lost , If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal spirits ; or have ye chos'n this place After the toil of ...
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... Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of ...
... Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of ...
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... Stood up , the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in Heaven , now fiercer by despair : His trust was with the Eternal to be deem'd Equal in strength ; and rather than be less Car'd not to be at all ; with that care lost Went ...
... Stood up , the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in Heaven , now fiercer by despair : His trust was with the Eternal to be deem'd Equal in strength ; and rather than be less Car'd not to be at all ; with that care lost Went ...
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... stood as night , Fierce as ten furies , terrible as Hell , And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his hear The likeness of a kingly crown had on . Satan was now at hand , and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With ...
... stood as night , Fierce as ten furies , terrible as Hell , And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his hear The likeness of a kingly crown had on . Satan was now at hand , and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With ...
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... stood Unterrified , and like a comet burn'd , That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky , and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war . Each at the head Levell'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke ...
... stood Unterrified , and like a comet burn'd , That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky , and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war . Each at the head Levell'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke ...
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