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... dæmon flies ; His rage is aim'd at him who rules the skies : Constrain❜d to quit his cause , no succour found , The foe discharges every tire around , In clouds of smoke abandoning the fight ; But his own thundering peals proclaim his ...
... dæmon flies ; His rage is aim'd at him who rules the skies : Constrain❜d to quit his cause , no succour found , The foe discharges every tire around , In clouds of smoke abandoning the fight ; But his own thundering peals proclaim his ...
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... dæmons , hear ! Ye know the spheres , and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th ' aërial kind . Some in the fields of purest æther play , And bask and whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high ...
... dæmons , hear ! Ye know the spheres , and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th ' aërial kind . Some in the fields of purest æther play , And bask and whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high ...
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... dæmon makes his full descent In one abundant shower of cent per cent , Sinks deep within him , and possesses whole , Then dubs director , and secures his soul . Behold Sir Balaam , now a man of spirit , Ascribes his gettings to his ...
... dæmon makes his full descent In one abundant shower of cent per cent , Sinks deep within him , and possesses whole , Then dubs director , and secures his soul . Behold Sir Balaam , now a man of spirit , Ascribes his gettings to his ...
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... dæmon whisper'd , " Visto ! have a taste . ' Heaven visits with a taste the wealthy fool , And needs no rod but Ripley with a rule . See ! sportive fate , to punish awkward pride , Bids Bubo build , and sends him such a guide : A ...
... dæmon whisper'd , " Visto ! have a taste . ' Heaven visits with a taste the wealthy fool , And needs no rod but Ripley with a rule . See ! sportive fate , to punish awkward pride , Bids Bubo build , and sends him such a guide : A ...
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... dæmon , with his hell - ' scap'd train , Admitted once into its better room , Grew loud and mutinous , nor would be gone ; Lording it o'er the man , who now too late Saw the rash error , which he could not mend : An error fatal not to ...
... dæmon , with his hell - ' scap'd train , Admitted once into its better room , Grew loud and mutinous , nor would be gone ; Lording it o'er the man , who now too late Saw the rash error , which he could not mend : An error fatal not to ...
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