The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 17Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... youth shall fatten Belgium's sands , And Victory against her Albion's cliffs Shall see the blood - empurpled ocean dash Thy weltering hosts , and stain the chalky shore : Ev'n those , whom now thy impious pride would bind In servile ...
... youth shall fatten Belgium's sands , And Victory against her Albion's cliffs Shall see the blood - empurpled ocean dash Thy weltering hosts , and stain the chalky shore : Ev'n those , whom now thy impious pride would bind In servile ...
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... youths , Around whose brows entwining laurels play , In lofty - sounding strains his praise record ; While snowy ... youth . He is my host at Thespia . Though adorn'd With various wreaths , by Fame , by Fortune bless'd , His gentle ...
... youths , Around whose brows entwining laurels play , In lofty - sounding strains his praise record ; While snowy ... youth . He is my host at Thespia . Though adorn'd With various wreaths , by Fame , by Fortune bless'd , His gentle ...
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... youth in rosy prime , And manly sweetness , won the fix'd regard Of each beholder . With a modest grace He came respectful tow'rd the king , and show'd , That all ideas of his own desert Were sunk in veneration . So the god Of light ...
... youth in rosy prime , And manly sweetness , won the fix'd regard Of each beholder . With a modest grace He came respectful tow'rd the king , and show'd , That all ideas of his own desert Were sunk in veneration . So the god Of light ...
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... youth His charge accomplish'd . From a gen'rous ineal , Where , at the call of Alphens , Locris shower'd Her Amalthean plenty on her friends , The fated warriors soon in slumber lose The men ory of toil . His watchful round Dieneces ...
... youth His charge accomplish'd . From a gen'rous ineal , Where , at the call of Alphens , Locris shower'd Her Amalthean plenty on her friends , The fated warriors soon in slumber lose The men ory of toil . His watchful round Dieneces ...
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... youth was fir'd . I summon'd from their cots A rustic host . We sacrific'd to Pan , Assail'd th ' unguarded ruffians in his name . He with his terrours smote their yielding hearts . Not one surviv'd the fury of our swains . Rich was the ...
... youth was fir'd . I summon'd from their cots A rustic host . We sacrific'd to Pan , Assail'd th ' unguarded ruffians in his name . He with his terrours smote their yielding hearts . Not one surviv'd the fury of our swains . Rich was the ...
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