The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 - English poetry |
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... rife There went a fame in Heav'n , that he e'er long Intended to create , and therein plant A generation , whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the fons of Heav'n : Thither , if but to pry , fhall be perhaps Our firft eruption ...
... rife There went a fame in Heav'n , that he e'er long Intended to create , and therein plant A generation , whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the fons of Heav'n : Thither , if but to pry , fhall be perhaps Our firft eruption ...
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... rife With blackeft infurrection , to confound Heav'n's pureft light , yet our great enemy , All incorruptible , would on his throne Sit unpolluted , and th ' ethereal mould , Incapable of frain , would foon expel Her mifchief , and ...
... rife With blackeft infurrection , to confound Heav'n's pureft light , yet our great enemy , All incorruptible , would on his throne Sit unpolluted , and th ' ethereal mould , Incapable of frain , would foon expel Her mifchief , and ...
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... rife By policy , and long procefs of time , In emulation oppofite to Heav'n . Which , when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom , Satan except , none higher fat , with grave Afpect he rofe , and in his rifing feem'd A pillar of itate ; deep ...
... rife By policy , and long procefs of time , In emulation oppofite to Heav'n . Which , when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom , Satan except , none higher fat , with grave Afpect he rofe , and in his rifing feem'd A pillar of itate ; deep ...
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... rife victorious , and fubdue My vanquisher , fpoil'd of his vaunted spoil ; Death his death's wound fhall then receive , and Inglorious , of his mortal fling disarm'd . [ stoop I through the ample air in triumph high Shall lead Hell ...
... rife victorious , and fubdue My vanquisher , fpoil'd of his vaunted spoil ; Death his death's wound fhall then receive , and Inglorious , of his mortal fling disarm'd . [ stoop I through the ample air in triumph high Shall lead Hell ...
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... rife , and rising , with him raise , His brethren , ranfom'd with his own dear life . So heav'nly love fhall outdo hellish hate , Giving to death , and dying to redeem , So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So cafily deftroy'd , and ...
... rife , and rising , with him raise , His brethren , ranfom'd with his own dear life . So heav'nly love fhall outdo hellish hate , Giving to death , and dying to redeem , So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So cafily deftroy'd , and ...
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