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... Also our author's verfion of the fifty - third Pfalm , noted by the tranfcriber , I fuppofe as an example of un- common exertion of genius , to have been done in the fifteenth year of the tranflator's age . San- croft , even to his ...
... Also our author's verfion of the fifty - third Pfalm , noted by the tranfcriber , I fuppofe as an example of un- common exertion of genius , to have been done in the fifteenth year of the tranflator's age . San- croft , even to his ...
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... also the Key of SIN in PARAD . L. B. ii . 774 . · Such , as for their bellies fake , 114 . Creep , and intrude , and climb into the fold . ] He here animad- verts on the endowments of the church , at the fame time infinuating that they ...
... also the Key of SIN in PARAD . L. B. ii . 774 . · Such , as for their bellies fake , 114 . Creep , and intrude , and climb into the fold . ] He here animad- verts on the endowments of the church , at the fame time infinuating that they ...
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... also Drayton , PoL YOLB . S. Xxiii . vol . iii . p . 1107 . Then Cornwall creepeth out into the westerne maine , As , lying in her eye , fhe pointed ftill at Spaine . And Orofius , " The fecond angle or point of Spain forms a cape ...
... also Drayton , PoL YOLB . S. Xxiii . vol . iii . p . 1107 . Then Cornwall creepeth out into the westerne maine , As , lying in her eye , fhe pointed ftill at Spaine . And Orofius , " The fecond angle or point of Spain forms a cape ...
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... also a Vision of faint Michael . But to apply what has been faid to Milton . This GREAT VISION is the famous Apparition of faint Michael , whom he with much fub- limity of imagination fuppofes to be ftill throned on this lofty crag of ...
... also a Vision of faint Michael . But to apply what has been faid to Milton . This GREAT VISION is the famous Apparition of faint Michael , whom he with much fub- limity of imagination fuppofes to be ftill throned on this lofty crag of ...
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... also the Eastern Gate , which is most poetically opened , MIDS . N. DR . A. iii . S. ix . Even till the EASTERN GATE , all fiery red , Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams , Turns into yellow gold his falt - green streams . And he ...
... also the Eastern Gate , which is most poetically opened , MIDS . N. DR . A. iii . S. ix . Even till the EASTERN GATE , all fiery red , Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams , Turns into yellow gold his falt - green streams . And he ...
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Page 267 - The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 10 - scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 31 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 92 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 43 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 4 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 350 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 34 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 63 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 74 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...