A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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... fear , Which humble Holland must diffemble here . Spain to your gift alone her Indies owes ; For what the powerful takes not he bestows ; And France , that did an exile's prefence fear , May justly apprehend you ftill too near . At home ...
... fear , Which humble Holland must diffemble here . Spain to your gift alone her Indies owes ; For what the powerful takes not he bestows ; And France , that did an exile's prefence fear , May justly apprehend you ftill too near . At home ...
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... fear'd This new Meffiah's coming , there did wait , And round the verge their braving veffels fteer'd , To tempt his courage with fo fair a bait . CXV . But he unmov'd contemns their idle threat , Secure of fame whene'er he please to ...
... fear'd This new Meffiah's coming , there did wait , And round the verge their braving veffels fteer'd , To tempt his courage with fo fair a bait . CXV . But he unmov'd contemns their idle threat , Secure of fame whene'er he please to ...
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... fear , And in the dark men justle as they meet . CCXXVIII . So weary bees in little cells repofe ; But if night - robbers lift the well - ftor'd hive , An humming through their waxen city grows , And out upon each other's wings they ...
... fear , And in the dark men justle as they meet . CCXXVIII . So weary bees in little cells repofe ; But if night - robbers lift the well - ftor'd hive , An humming through their waxen city grows , And out upon each other's wings they ...
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... fears Call Jebusites , and Pharaoh's penfioners ; Whom when our fury from his aid has torn , He fhall be naked left to public fcorn . The next fucceffor , whom I fear and hate , My arts have made obnoxious to the state ; Turn'd all his ...
... fears Call Jebusites , and Pharaoh's penfioners ; Whom when our fury from his aid has torn , He fhall be naked left to public fcorn . The next fucceffor , whom I fear and hate , My arts have made obnoxious to the state ; Turn'd all his ...
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... fear His train their Maker in their mafter hear . Thus long have 1 , by native mercy fway'd , My wrongs diffembled , my revenge delay'd : So willing to forgive th ' offending age ; So much the father did the king affuage . But now fo ...
... fear His train their Maker in their mafter hear . Thus long have 1 , by native mercy fway'd , My wrongs diffembled , my revenge delay'd : So willing to forgive th ' offending age ; So much the father did the king affuage . But now fo ...
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Page 42 - Some had in courts been great, and thrown from thence , Like fiends, were harden'd in impenitence...
Page 54 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.