The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... thou , Tarpeian poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With ...
... thou , Tarpeian poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With ...
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... thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . From the " Animadversions " no suspicion of a charge against their writer could by any process be extracted . but , in that seat of ...
... thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . From the " Animadversions " no suspicion of a charge against their writer could by any process be extracted . but , in that seat of ...
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... thou wast divine . VI . Resolve me then , O soul most surely blest ! ( If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear ) Tell me , bright Spirit , where'er thou hoverest , Whether above that high first moving sphere , Or in the Elysian ...
... thou wast divine . VI . Resolve me then , O soul most surely blest ! ( If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear ) Tell me , bright Spirit , where'er thou hoverest , Whether above that high first moving sphere , Or in the Elysian ...
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... thou the mother of so sweet a child HER false imagined loss cease to lament , & c . it is rather strange that both Tickell and Fenton should call this fair infant the NE- PHEW of our author . In the ode " On the Morning of Christ's ...
... thou the mother of so sweet a child HER false imagined loss cease to lament , & c . it is rather strange that both Tickell and Fenton should call this fair infant the NE- PHEW of our author . In the ode " On the Morning of Christ's ...
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... thou clothe my faney in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever ...
... thou clothe my faney in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever ...
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