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... king , be faid to be pro- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs surprising , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian ...
... king , be faid to be pro- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs surprising , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian ...
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... ; See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings , And heap'd with products of Sabæan fprings + . Ifaiah , c . lx . v . 4 , 6 , 7 . + Ver . 91 . As " 14 As profperity and happiness are defcribed in this AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 13.
... ; See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings , And heap'd with products of Sabæan fprings + . Ifaiah , c . lx . v . 4 , 6 , 7 . + Ver . 91 . As " 14 As profperity and happiness are defcribed in this AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 13.
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... king of Babylon ; a fong abounding in the moft fplendid images , and carried on by per- petual , and those very ... kings and princes of the Gentiles , rejoice , and infult with reproaches the bro- ken power of their most implacable foe ...
... king of Babylon ; a fong abounding in the moft fplendid images , and carried on by per- petual , and those very ... kings and princes of the Gentiles , rejoice , and infult with reproaches the bro- ken power of their most implacable foe ...
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... kings : immediately all of them arife from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather con- folation from his calamity . Art thou alfo made weak as we ? art thou made like unto ...
... kings : immediately all of them arife from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather con- folation from his calamity . Art thou alfo made weak as we ? art thou made like unto ...
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... king of Babylon caft out : they furvey it closely and attentively , and at laft hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who shook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and deftroyed it's cities ? They reproach ...
... king of Babylon caft out : they furvey it closely and attentively , and at laft hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who shook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and deftroyed it's cities ? They reproach ...
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