The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 17Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... hand congeal'd , Ev'n Newton left unknown this hidden power : Thou from the race of human kind select Some other worthy of an angel's care , With inspiration animate his breast , And him instruct in these thy secret laws . O let not ...
... hand congeal'd , Ev'n Newton left unknown this hidden power : Thou from the race of human kind select Some other worthy of an angel's care , With inspiration animate his breast , And him instruct in these thy secret laws . O let not ...
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... hand Th ' immense Peruvian empire it resign'd , And all , which lordly Montezuma 18 sway'd ? And com'st thou , strengthen'd with the shining stores Of that gold - teeming hemisphere , to waste The smiling fields of Europe , and extend ...
... hand Th ' immense Peruvian empire it resign'd , And all , which lordly Montezuma 18 sway'd ? And com'st thou , strengthen'd with the shining stores Of that gold - teeming hemisphere , to waste The smiling fields of Europe , and extend ...
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... hand of Perseus had disclos'd The snakes of dire Medusa , all , who view'd The Gorgon features , were congeal'd to stone , With ghastly eyeballs , on the hero bent , And horrour , living in their marble form ; Thus with amazement rooted ...
... hand of Perseus had disclos'd The snakes of dire Medusa , all , who view'd The Gorgon features , were congeal'd to stone , With ghastly eyeballs , on the hero bent , And horrour , living in their marble form ; Thus with amazement rooted ...
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... hand . Against his colleague envious he suborn'd Leutychides . Him perjury and fraud Plac'd on the seat , by Demaratus held Unstain'd in lustre . " Here Oileus ' son . " My future service only can repay Thy confidential friendship . Let ...
... hand . Against his colleague envious he suborn'd Leutychides . Him perjury and fraud Plac'd on the seat , by Demaratus held Unstain'd in lustre . " Here Oileus ' son . " My future service only can repay Thy confidential friendship . Let ...
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... hand to break the fallow glebe . Them to the noon - day toil no harvest calls . Nor on the mountain falls the stubborn oak By their laborious axe . Their watchful eyes Observe not how the flocks and heifers feed . To them of wealth , of ...
... hand to break the fallow glebe . Them to the noon - day toil no harvest calls . Nor on the mountain falls the stubborn oak By their laborious axe . Their watchful eyes Observe not how the flocks and heifers feed . To them of wealth , of ...
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