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Twice ten tempeituous nights I roll'd , refign'd To roaring billows , and the warring wind ; Hicav'n bade the decp to spare ! but heav'n my foc Spares only to infict iome mighiier woe ! Inur'd to cares , to death in all its formis ...
Twice ten tempeituous nights I roll'd , refign'd To roaring billows , and the warring wind ; Hicav'n bade the decp to spare ! but heav'n my foc Spares only to infict iome mighiier woe ! Inur'd to cares , to death in all its formis ...
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With partial hands the gods their gifts dispense : Some greatly think , fome speak with manly sense ; Here heav'n an elegance of form denies , But wisdom the defe & t of form supplies : This man with energy of thought controuls ...
With partial hands the gods their gifts dispense : Some greatly think , fome speak with manly sense ; Here heav'n an elegance of form denies , But wisdom the defe & t of form supplies : This man with energy of thought controuls ...
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Phemius alone the hand of vengeance spar'd , Phemius the sweet , the heav'n - initructed bard . Beside the gate the rev'rend minstrel stands ; The lyre , now filent , trembling in his hands ; Dubious to fupplicate the chief , or fly To ...
Phemius alone the hand of vengeance spar'd , Phemius the sweet , the heav'n - initructed bard . Beside the gate the rev'rend minstrel stands ; The lyre , now filent , trembling in his hands ; Dubious to fupplicate the chief , or fly To ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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