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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... race , Religion , Liberty , and Peace , embrace ; Here joyful crowds their pious thanks express , For Peace restor'd , and Heaven's indulgence bless . Auspicious structure ! born in happy days , Whose first employment is the noblest ...
... race , Religion , Liberty , and Peace , embrace ; Here joyful crowds their pious thanks express , For Peace restor'd , and Heaven's indulgence bless . Auspicious structure ! born in happy days , Whose first employment is the noblest ...
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... race . Th ' unnumber'd species of the fertile tide , In shoals , around their mighty mother , glide . From out the rock's wide cavern's deep below , The rushing ocean rises to its flow ; And , ebbing , here retires ; within its sides ...
... race . Th ' unnumber'd species of the fertile tide , In shoals , around their mighty mother , glide . From out the rock's wide cavern's deep below , The rushing ocean rises to its flow ; And , ebbing , here retires ; within its sides ...
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... race , And fair renown on all the godlike race bestow'd ! This ancient source of noble blood Through thee , Germania , wandering wide , Like thy own Rhine's enriching tide , In numerous branches long diffus'd its flood . Rhine , scarce ...
... race , And fair renown on all the godlike race bestow'd ! This ancient source of noble blood Through thee , Germania , wandering wide , Like thy own Rhine's enriching tide , In numerous branches long diffus'd its flood . Rhine , scarce ...
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... race Through parting seas , deriv'd his songs of praise : She gave the rapturous ode , whose ardent lay Sings female force , and vanquish'd Sisera ; She tun'd to pious notes the psalmist's lyre , [ fire ! And fill'd Isaiah's breast with ...
... race Through parting seas , deriv'd his songs of praise : She gave the rapturous ode , whose ardent lay Sings female force , and vanquish'd Sisera ; She tun'd to pious notes the psalmist's lyre , [ fire ! And fill'd Isaiah's breast with ...
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... race The Roman arms shall win : Rejoicing , onward they approach To view the outworks of the world , The maddening fires , in wild debauch , [ whirl'd ! The snows and rains unborn , in endless eddies " ' Tis I , O Rome , pronounce these ...
... race The Roman arms shall win : Rejoicing , onward they approach To view the outworks of the world , The maddening fires , in wild debauch , [ whirl'd ! The snows and rains unborn , in endless eddies " ' Tis I , O Rome , pronounce these ...
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