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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Page 80
... thousand times told o'er . Who hears of Streatton - fight , but must confess All that he heard or read before was less ; Sad Germany can no such trophy boast , For all the blood this twenty years she ' as lost . Vast was their army ...
... thousand times told o'er . Who hears of Streatton - fight , but must confess All that he heard or read before was less ; Sad Germany can no such trophy boast , For all the blood this twenty years she ' as lost . Vast was their army ...
Page 153
... thousand flocks and thousand herds are paid , Arabian tribute ! What mad troops are those , Those mighty troops that dare to be his foes ! He prays them dead : with inutual wounds they fall ; One fury brought , one fury slays , them all ...
... thousand flocks and thousand herds are paid , Arabian tribute ! What mad troops are those , Those mighty troops that dare to be his foes ! He prays them dead : with inutual wounds they fall ; One fury brought , one fury slays , them all ...
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... thousand guards to be fetched for the king , I know not from whence , and to keep up for himself no less than forty thousand ? to pretend the defence of parliaments , and violently to dissolve all , even of his own calling , and almost ...
... thousand guards to be fetched for the king , I know not from whence , and to keep up for himself no less than forty thousand ? to pretend the defence of parliaments , and violently to dissolve all , even of his own calling , and almost ...
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