The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... fame , and verse , still grow , Till those shall cease to live , and Thames to flow . Nature , subdu'd , foretold the great decline , And every heart was plung'd in grief , but thine ; Thy soul , serene , the conflict did maintain , And ...
... fame , and verse , still grow , Till those shall cease to live , and Thames to flow . Nature , subdu'd , foretold the great decline , And every heart was plung'd in grief , but thine ; Thy soul , serene , the conflict did maintain , And ...
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... Fame , still honour'd , and admir'd ! While fill'd with joy , in happier realms you stray , And dwell in mansions of eternal day ; While you , conspicuous through the heavenly choir , With swelling rapture tune the chosen lyre ; Where ...
... Fame , still honour'd , and admir'd ! While fill'd with joy , in happier realms you stray , And dwell in mansions of eternal day ; While you , conspicuous through the heavenly choir , With swelling rapture tune the chosen lyre ; Where ...
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... fame : Thy heroine's softer virtues charm the sight , And fill our souls with ravishing delight , Exalted love and dauntless courage meet , To make thy hero's character complete , This finish'd piece the noblest pens commend , And e'en ...
... fame : Thy heroine's softer virtues charm the sight , And fill our souls with ravishing delight , Exalted love and dauntless courage meet , To make thy hero's character complete , This finish'd piece the noblest pens commend , And e'en ...
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... fame . See , crowds of heroes rise to sight ! Adolphus , with imperial splendour gay : Brave Philibert , unmatch'd in fight , Who led the German eagle to his prey , See next , majestically great , The founder of the Belgic state ! The ...
... fame . See , crowds of heroes rise to sight ! Adolphus , with imperial splendour gay : Brave Philibert , unmatch'd in fight , Who led the German eagle to his prey , See next , majestically great , The founder of the Belgic state ! The ...
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... fame ! When Rome , his awful mother , did demand The sword from his unruly hand , The sword she gave before , Enrag'd , he spurn'd at her command , Had not Britannia's chief withstood The threaten'd deluge , and repell'd , To its ...
... fame ! When Rome , his awful mother , did demand The sword from his unruly hand , The sword she gave before , Enrag'd , he spurn'd at her command , Had not Britannia's chief withstood The threaten'd deluge , and repell'd , To its ...
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