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... wild paradise , where , if we cannot see all the beauties so distinctly as in an ordered garden , it is only because the num- ber of them is infinitely greater . It is like a copious nursery , which contains the seeds and first produc ...
... wild paradise , where , if we cannot see all the beauties so distinctly as in an ordered garden , it is only because the num- ber of them is infinitely greater . It is like a copious nursery , which contains the seeds and first produc ...
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... wild , rocky cliff , and ocean surge , sc do the works of this , and the Grecian poet , shine forth with transcendent luster through all succeeding ages . But as the venerable Ossian flourished in an age when traditional songs supplied ...
... wild , rocky cliff , and ocean surge , sc do the works of this , and the Grecian poet , shine forth with transcendent luster through all succeeding ages . But as the venerable Ossian flourished in an age when traditional songs supplied ...
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... wild , animating , and heroic songs of the thousand bards that crowded the halls of Selma , during the life and triumphant career of his father , were perhaps the first sounds that greeted his ear , and formed the lul laby of his early ...
... wild , animating , and heroic songs of the thousand bards that crowded the halls of Selma , during the life and triumphant career of his father , were perhaps the first sounds that greeted his ear , and formed the lul laby of his early ...
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... wild abyss , ( The womb of nature , and perhaps her grave , ) Of neither sea , nor shore , nor air , nor fire , But all these in their pregnant causes mix'd Confusedly , and which thus must ever fight , ( Unless the Almighty Maker them ...
... wild abyss , ( The womb of nature , and perhaps her grave , ) Of neither sea , nor shore , nor air , nor fire , But all these in their pregnant causes mix'd Confusedly , and which thus must ever fight , ( Unless the Almighty Maker them ...
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... wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of hell , and look'd a while Pondering his voyage . After much difficulty this divine poem was licensed for the press , and published first at London , in 1667 . To show how little the age in ...
... wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of hell , and look'd a while Pondering his voyage . After much difficulty this divine poem was licensed for the press , and published first at London , in 1667 . To show how little the age in ...
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