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... by his suggestion taught , Ransack'd the centre , and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures , better hid . Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound , And digged out ribs of gold .
... by his suggestion taught , Ransack'd the centre , and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures , better hid . Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound , And digged out ribs of gold .
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.
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| Title | The British Poets: Including Translations ... Volume 16 of The British Poets: Including Translations |
| Publisher | C. Whittingham, 1822 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Oct 4, 2006 |
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