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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... fhew more ? Our torments alfo may in length of time Become our elements ; thefe piercing fires As foft as now fevere ; our temper chang'd Into their temper ; which muft needs remove The fenfible of pain . All things invite To peaceful ...
... fhew more ? Our torments alfo may in length of time Become our elements ; thefe piercing fires As foft as now fevere ; our temper chang'd Into their temper ; which muft needs remove The fenfible of pain . All things invite To peaceful ...
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... fhew The pow'rs of darknefs bound . Thou at the fight Picas'd , out of Heaven fhalt look down and smile , While by thee rais'd I ruin all my foes , Death laft , and with his carcafe glut the grave ; ' Then with the multitude of my ...
... fhew The pow'rs of darknefs bound . Thou at the fight Picas'd , out of Heaven fhalt look down and smile , While by thee rais'd I ruin all my foes , Death laft , and with his carcafe glut the grave ; ' Then with the multitude of my ...
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... fhew Deep malice to conceal , couch'd with revenge : Yet not enough had practis'd to deceive Uriel once warn'd ; whose eye pursued him down The way he went , and on th ' Affyrian mount Saw him disfigur'd , more than could befal Spirit ...
... fhew Deep malice to conceal , couch'd with revenge : Yet not enough had practis'd to deceive Uriel once warn'd ; whose eye pursued him down The way he went , and on th ' Affyrian mount Saw him disfigur'd , more than could befal Spirit ...
Page 73
... fhew of love well feign'd , The way which to her ruin now I tend . So fpake the enemy ' of mankind , inclos'd In ferpent , inmate bad , and tow'rd Eve Addrefs'd his way , not with indented wave , Prone on the ground , as fince , but on ...
... fhew of love well feign'd , The way which to her ruin now I tend . So fpake the enemy ' of mankind , inclos'd In ferpent , inmate bad , and tow'rd Eve Addrefs'd his way , not with indented wave , Prone on the ground , as fince , but on ...
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... fhew of zeal and love , To man , and indignation at his wrong , New part puts on , and as to paffion mov'd , Fluctuates difturb'd , yet comely and in act Rais'd , as of fome great matter to begin . As when of old fome orator renown'd In ...
... fhew of zeal and love , To man , and indignation at his wrong , New part puts on , and as to paffion mov'd , Fluctuates difturb'd , yet comely and in act Rais'd , as of fome great matter to begin . As when of old fome orator renown'd In ...
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