Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 2John Aikin |
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Page 461
... fire , and banished his pot . Straight from the filth of this low grub , behold ! Comes fluttering forth a gaudy spendthrift heir , All glossy gay , enamel'd all with gold , The silly tenant of the summer - air , In folly lost , of ...
... fire , and banished his pot . Straight from the filth of this low grub , behold ! Comes fluttering forth a gaudy spendthrift heir , All glossy gay , enamel'd all with gold , The silly tenant of the summer - air , In folly lost , of ...
Page 544
... fire ; Speech burnishes our mental magazine ; Brightens , for ornament ; and whets , for use . What numbers , sheath'd in erudition , lie , Plung'd to the hilts in venerable tomes , And rusted in ; who might have borne an edge , And ...
... fire ; Speech burnishes our mental magazine ; Brightens , for ornament ; and whets , for use . What numbers , sheath'd in erudition , lie , Plung'd to the hilts in venerable tomes , And rusted in ; who might have borne an edge , And ...
Page 699
... fire the least , and soonest mounts in air ; The most insipid ; the most void of smell . Such the rude mountain from his horrid sides Pours down ; such waters in the sandy vale For ever boil , alike of winter frosts And summer's heat ...
... fire the least , and soonest mounts in air ; The most insipid ; the most void of smell . Such the rude mountain from his horrid sides Pours down ; such waters in the sandy vale For ever boil , alike of winter frosts And summer's heat ...
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