The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred PoetrySelected poetry by Milton, Pope, Watts, Goldsmith, Shakespeare, and others (identified at the beginnng of each selection). |
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... 74 75 76 · 78 80 82 83 84 99 · 103 106 · 110 An Elegy , defcribing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind , on the melancholy Event of a licentious Amour 114 115 The Hermit A Night - Piece on Death The Meffiah vi CONTENTS .
... 74 75 76 · 78 80 82 83 84 99 · 103 106 · 110 An Elegy , defcribing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind , on the melancholy Event of a licentious Amour 114 115 The Hermit A Night - Piece on Death The Meffiah vi CONTENTS .
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... Night 148 Bedlam · The Shepherd and the Philofopher 151 158 A Description of a Man perishing in the Snow , from whence Reflections are raised on the Miseries of Life 162 A Thaw - 165 Reflections on a Future State , from a Review of ...
... Night 148 Bedlam · The Shepherd and the Philofopher 151 158 A Description of a Man perishing in the Snow , from whence Reflections are raised on the Miseries of Life 162 A Thaw - 165 Reflections on a Future State , from a Review of ...
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... Night He nam'd . Thus was the first day ev'n and morn : Nor pafs'd uncelebrated , nor unfung By the cœleftial quoirs , when orient light , Exhaling first from darkness , they beheld ; Birth - day of heaven and earth : with joy and fhout ...
... Night He nam'd . Thus was the first day ev'n and morn : Nor pafs'd uncelebrated , nor unfung By the cœleftial quoirs , when orient light , Exhaling first from darkness , they beheld ; Birth - day of heaven and earth : with joy and fhout ...
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... night altern : and made the stars , And fet them in the firmament of heaven T'illuminate the earth , and rule the day In their viciffitude , and rule the night , And light from darkness to divide . Surveying His great work , that it was ...
... night altern : and made the stars , And fet them in the firmament of heaven T'illuminate the earth , and rule the day In their viciffitude , and rule the night , And light from darkness to divide . Surveying His great work , that it was ...
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... night , then in the east her turn she shines , Revolv'd on heaven's great axle , and her reign With thousand leffer lights dividual holds , With thoufand thousand ftars , that then appear'd Spangling the hemisphere : then first adorn'd ...
... night , then in the east her turn she shines , Revolv'd on heaven's great axle , and her reign With thousand leffer lights dividual holds , With thoufand thousand ftars , that then appear'd Spangling the hemisphere : then first adorn'd ...
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