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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... first instructed by private tuition , under the care of Thomas Young a Clergyman , whose attention and capacity were celebrated by his pupil in an elegant Latin Elegy , written in his 12th year . He was then fent to St. Paul's School ...
... first instructed by private tuition , under the care of Thomas Young a Clergyman , whose attention and capacity were celebrated by his pupil in an elegant Latin Elegy , written in his 12th year . He was then fent to St. Paul's School ...
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... First Book proposes , first in brief , the whole fubject , Man's disobedience , and the lofs thereupon of Paradife wherein he was placed : then touches the prime cause of his fall , the serpent or rather Satan in the serpent ; who ...
... First Book proposes , first in brief , the whole fubject , Man's disobedience , and the lofs thereupon of Paradife wherein he was placed : then touches the prime cause of his fall , the serpent or rather Satan in the serpent ; who ...
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... first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright feiz'd By younger Saturn ; he from mightier Jove His own and Rhea's fon like measure found ; So Jove ufurping reign'd : these first in Crete And Ida known , thence on the fnowy top ...
... first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright feiz'd By younger Saturn ; he from mightier Jove His own and Rhea's fon like measure found ; So Jove ufurping reign'd : these first in Crete And Ida known , thence on the fnowy top ...
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... first their lamentable lot , and found No reft through many a dark and dreary vale They pafs'd , and many a region dolorcus , O'er many a frozen , many a fiery Alp , Rocks , caves , lakes , fens , bogs , dens , and fades of death , A ...
... first their lamentable lot , and found No reft through many a dark and dreary vale They pafs'd , and many a region dolorcus , O'er many a frozen , many a fiery Alp , Rocks , caves , lakes , fens , bogs , dens , and fades of death , A ...
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... first on Mount Niphates , HAIL holy Light , offspring of heav'n first - born , Or of th ' Eternal coeternal beam , May I express thee ' unblam'd ? Since God is light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then ...
... first on Mount Niphates , HAIL holy Light , offspring of heav'n first - born , Or of th ' Eternal coeternal beam , May I express thee ' unblam'd ? Since God is light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then ...
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