Poems on Several OccasionsBernard Lintot, at the Cross-Kyes [!] between the Temple gates in Fleet-street, 1726 - 221 pages |
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... BOOK I. T O fill my rising Song with facred Fire , Ye tuneful Nine , ye fweet Celestial Quire ! From Helicon's imbow'ring Height repair , Attend my Labours , and reward my Pray'r . The dreadful Toils of raging Mars I write , The Springs ...
... BOOK I. T O fill my rising Song with facred Fire , Ye tuneful Nine , ye fweet Celestial Quire ! From Helicon's imbow'ring Height repair , Attend my Labours , and reward my Pray'r . The dreadful Toils of raging Mars I write , The Springs ...
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Thomas Parnell. HOME R's BATTEL of the FROGS , & c . WH BOOK II . HEN rofy - finger'd Morn had ting'd the Clouds , Around their Monarch - Moufe the Nation crouds ; Slow rose the Sov'reign , heav'd his anxious Breast , And thus , the ...
Thomas Parnell. HOME R's BATTEL of the FROGS , & c . WH BOOK II . HEN rofy - finger'd Morn had ting'd the Clouds , Around their Monarch - Moufe the Nation crouds ; Slow rose the Sov'reign , heav'd his anxious Breast , And thus , the ...
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... BOOK III . W Front to Front the marching Armies fhine , Halt ere they meet , and form the length'ning Line : The Chiefs confpicuous seen and heard afar , Give the loud Signal to the rushing War ; Their dreadful Trumpets deep - mouth'd ...
... BOOK III . W Front to Front the marching Armies fhine , Halt ere they meet , and form the length'ning Line : The Chiefs confpicuous seen and heard afar , Give the loud Signal to the rushing War ; Their dreadful Trumpets deep - mouth'd ...
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... Books I bid the Mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather Good than Great . Or o'er the Works of eafy Fancy rove , Where Flutes and Innocence amuse the Grove : The native Bard that on Sicilian Plains First sung the lowly Manners of the ...
... Books I bid the Mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather Good than Great . Or o'er the Works of eafy Fancy rove , Where Flutes and Innocence amuse the Grove : The native Bard that on Sicilian Plains First sung the lowly Manners of the ...
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... be free . So parts the buzzing gaudy Crowd , and He : As careless he for them , as they for him ; He wrapt in Wisdom , and they whirl'd by Whim . The THE BOOK - W OR M. OME hither , Boy 132 Poems on feveral Occafions .
... be free . So parts the buzzing gaudy Crowd , and He : As careless he for them , as they for him ; He wrapt in Wisdom , and they whirl'd by Whim . The THE BOOK - W OR M. OME hither , Boy 132 Poems on feveral Occafions .
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