The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive, Pathetic, Plaintive, and Pastoral Poetry, Extracted from the Works of the Latest and Most Celebrated Poets... |
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... sky ; Nor lefs the mystic characters I fee Wrought in each flower , infcrib'd on ev'ry tree ; In ev'ry leaf that trembles to the breeze I hear the voice of God among the trees . With thee in fhady folitudes I walk , With thee in bufy ...
... sky ; Nor lefs the mystic characters I fee Wrought in each flower , infcrib'd on ev'ry tree ; In ev'ry leaf that trembles to the breeze I hear the voice of God among the trees . With thee in fhady folitudes I walk , With thee in bufy ...
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... sky ! The stars rush headlong in the wild commotion , And bathe their glittering foreheads in the ocean . MRS . BARBAULD . HEA SECT . XVII . TO A YOUNG LADY . EALTH to my dear - and long unbroken years , By ftorms unruffled , and ...
... sky ! The stars rush headlong in the wild commotion , And bathe their glittering foreheads in the ocean . MRS . BARBAULD . HEA SECT . XVII . TO A YOUNG LADY . EALTH to my dear - and long unbroken years , By ftorms unruffled , and ...
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... sky retains , The parted wave no furrow from the keel , So dies in human hearts the thought of death . Ev'n with the tender tear , which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . DR . YOUNG . SE C T. XX . ON TIME ...
... sky retains , The parted wave no furrow from the keel , So dies in human hearts the thought of death . Ev'n with the tender tear , which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . DR . YOUNG . SE C T. XX . ON TIME ...
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... sky - topt pyramids , whofe fteepy fpires O'erlook'd a waste of empire . ' Twas in all A mighty city ; round whofe ample skirts A circling terras ran , broad , firm , and ftrong , To ftand the dafh of torrents . From the brow Of a steep ...
... sky - topt pyramids , whofe fteepy fpires O'erlook'd a waste of empire . ' Twas in all A mighty city ; round whofe ample skirts A circling terras ran , broad , firm , and ftrong , To ftand the dafh of torrents . From the brow Of a steep ...
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... sky , By chance , or fearch , was offer'd to his view , He fcann'd with curious and romantic eye . Whate'er of lore tradition could fupply From Gothic tale , or fong , or fable old , Rous'd him ftill keen to liften and to pry . At last ...
... sky , By chance , or fearch , was offer'd to his view , He fcann'd with curious and romantic eye . Whate'er of lore tradition could fupply From Gothic tale , or fong , or fable old , Rous'd him ftill keen to liften and to pry . At last ...
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