The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5John & Arthur Arch ... and for Bell & Bradfute and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry |
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... lefs beautiful of its kind than the last , being a Monody on the death of his friend Edward King , fon of Sir John King , Secretary for Ireland , who was loft in his paffage to that country . Milton having now remained with his father ...
... lefs beautiful of its kind than the last , being a Monody on the death of his friend Edward King , fon of Sir John King , Secretary for Ireland , who was loft in his paffage to that country . Milton having now remained with his father ...
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... lefs fevere , I lik'd his project , the fuccefs did fear , Through that wide field how he his way find , fhould O'er which lame faith leads understanding blind ; Left he perplex'd the things he would explain , And what was eafy he ...
... lefs fevere , I lik'd his project , the fuccefs did fear , Through that wide field how he his way find , fhould O'er which lame faith leads understanding blind ; Left he perplex'd the things he would explain , And what was eafy he ...
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... Lefs than Arch - angel ruin'd , and th ' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams , or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight theds On half the ...
... Lefs than Arch - angel ruin'd , and th ' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams , or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight theds On half the ...
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... lefs In power and excellence , but favour'd more Of him who rules above ; fo was his will Pronounc'd among the gods , and , by an oath , That shook heaven's whole circumference , con- firm'd . Thicher let us bend all our thoughts , to ...
... lefs In power and excellence , but favour'd more Of him who rules above ; fo was his will Pronounc'd among the gods , and , by an oath , That shook heaven's whole circumference , con- firm'd . Thicher let us bend all our thoughts , to ...
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... lefs peal'd With noifes loud and ruinous ( to compare Great things with fmall ) than when Bellona ftorms , With all her battering engines , bent to raze Some capital city ; or lefs than if this frame Of Heav'n were falling , and thefe ...
... lefs peal'd With noifes loud and ruinous ( to compare Great things with fmall ) than when Bellona ftorms , With all her battering engines , bent to raze Some capital city ; or lefs than if this frame Of Heav'n were falling , and thefe ...
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