The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Cowley, Denham, MiltonAlexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson J. Johnson; J. Nichols and son; R. Baldwin; F. and C. Rivington; W. Otridge and Son; Leigh and Sotheby; R. Faulder and Son; G. Nicol and Son; T. Payne; G. Robinson; Wilkie and Robinson; C. Davies; T. Egerton; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Stockdale; Cuthell and Martin; Clarke and Sons; J. White and Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; J. Barker; John Richardson; J.M. Richardson; J. Carpenter; B. Crosby; E. Jeffery; J. Murray; W. Miller; J. and A. Arch; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Booker; S. Bagster; J. Harding; J. Mackinlay; J. Hatchard; R.H. Evans; Matthews and Leigh; J. Mawman; J. Booth; J. Asperne; P. and W. Wynne; and W. Grace, Deighton and Son at Cambridge; and Wilson and Son at York, 1810 - English poetry |
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... sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew , The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest : That right Porphyrian tree , which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were ...
... sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew , The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest : That right Porphyrian tree , which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were ...
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... sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane ...
... sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane ...
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... Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and to repose on its veracity ...
... Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and to repose on its veracity ...
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Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson. the sacred volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a dis- tinct species of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for ...
Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson. the sacred volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a dis- tinct species of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for ...
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... sacred things , by which readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one passage taken by Cowley ...
... sacred things , by which readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one passage taken by Cowley ...
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