Minor English Poets, 1660-1780: A Selection from Alexander Chalmers' The English Poets, Volume 1David P. French B. Blom, 1967 - English poetry |
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... bear at stake , That at the chain's end wheels about , And overturns the rabble - rout : For after solemn proclamation In the bear's name , ( as is the fashion According to the law of arms , To keep men from inglorious harms ) That none ...
... bear at stake , That at the chain's end wheels about , And overturns the rabble - rout : For after solemn proclamation In the bear's name , ( as is the fashion According to the law of arms , To keep men from inglorious harms ) That none ...
Page 391
... bear it . The bear was in a greater fright , Beat down , and worsted by the knight ; He roar'd , and rag'd , and flung about , To shake off bondage from his snout : His wrath inflam'd , boil'd o'er , and from His jaws of death he threw ...
... bear it . The bear was in a greater fright , Beat down , and worsted by the knight ; He roar'd , and rag'd , and flung about , To shake off bondage from his snout : His wrath inflam'd , boil'd o'er , and from His jaws of death he threw ...
Page 402
... bear's . A bear's a savage beast , of all Most ugly and unnatural ; Whelp'd without form , until the dam Has lickt it into shape and frame : But all thy light can ne'er evict , That ever synod - man was lickt , Or brought to any other ...
... bear's . A bear's a savage beast , of all Most ugly and unnatural ; Whelp'd without form , until the dam Has lickt it into shape and frame : But all thy light can ne'er evict , That ever synod - man was lickt , Or brought to any other ...
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