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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... stood on the bare ftrand , While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof . The chief were those who from the pit of Hell Roaming to feek their prey on earth , durft fix Their feats long after next the feat of God , Their altars by his ...
... stood on the bare ftrand , While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof . The chief were those who from the pit of Hell Roaming to feek their prey on earth , durft fix Their feats long after next the feat of God , Their altars by his ...
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... stood Or altar fmok'd ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns Atheist , as did Eli's fons , who fill'd With luft and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he alfo reigns , And in luxurious ...
... stood Or altar fmok'd ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns Atheist , as did Eli's fons , who fill'd With luft and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he alfo reigns , And in luxurious ...
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... Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet loft All her original brightnefs , nor appear'd Lefs than Arch - angel ruin'd , and th ' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his ...
... Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet loft All her original brightnefs , nor appear'd Lefs than Arch - angel ruin'd , and th ' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his ...
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... Stood fix'd her stately height , and ftrait the doors Opening their brazen folds , discover wide Within her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendent by fubtile magic , many a row Of starry lamps and ...
... Stood fix'd her stately height , and ftrait the doors Opening their brazen folds , discover wide Within her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendent by fubtile magic , many a row Of starry lamps and ...
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... Stood up , the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven , now fiercer by despair : His truft was with th ' Eternal to be deem'd Equal in ftrength , and rather than be lefs Car'd not to be at all ; with that care loft Went ...
... Stood up , the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven , now fiercer by despair : His truft was with th ' Eternal to be deem'd Equal in ftrength , and rather than be lefs Car'd not to be at all ; with that care loft Went ...
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