The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 17Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... breast , His habitation once was fam'd to hold . Here , thou , O Homer , offer'dst up thy vows ; Thee , the kind Muse Calliopæa heard , And led thee to the empyrean seats , There manifested to thy hallow'd eyes The deeds of gods ; thee ...
... breast , His habitation once was fam'd to hold . Here , thou , O Homer , offer'dst up thy vows ; Thee , the kind Muse Calliopæa heard , And led thee to the empyrean seats , There manifested to thy hallow'd eyes The deeds of gods ; thee ...
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... breast Of groaning Tethys spreads its threat'ning fleets , I grasp the sounding shell , prepar'd to sing That hero's valour , who shall best confound His injur'd country's foes ; ev'n now I feel Celestial fires descending on my breast ...
... breast Of groaning Tethys spreads its threat'ning fleets , I grasp the sounding shell , prepar'd to sing That hero's valour , who shall best confound His injur'd country's foes ; ev'n now I feel Celestial fires descending on my breast ...
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... breast . Her orphan children , her devoted lord , Pale , bleeding , breathless on the field of death , Her ever - during solitude of woe , All rise in mingled horrour to her sight , When thus in bitt'rest agony she spake . " O whither ...
... breast . Her orphan children , her devoted lord , Pale , bleeding , breathless on the field of death , Her ever - during solitude of woe , All rise in mingled horrour to her sight , When thus in bitt'rest agony she spake . " O whither ...
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... breast Benevolence and equity infus'd , [ Heav'n : Truth , temperance , and wisdom sprung from When Arimanius blacken'd all the soul With falsehood and injustice , with desires Insatiable , with violence and rage , Malignity and folly ...
... breast Benevolence and equity infus'd , [ Heav'n : Truth , temperance , and wisdom sprung from When Arimanius blacken'd all the soul With falsehood and injustice , with desires Insatiable , with violence and rage , Malignity and folly ...
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... breast - plate | Where not five warriors in a rank can tread . The tremulous attire of cov'ring mail [ heav'd . We ... breasts Too long their swelling spirit have confin'd . Go then , ye sons of Liberty ; go , sweep These bondmen from ...
... breast - plate | Where not five warriors in a rank can tread . The tremulous attire of cov'ring mail [ heav'd . We ... breasts Too long their swelling spirit have confin'd . Go then , ye sons of Liberty ; go , sweep These bondmen from ...
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