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" To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. "
The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 212
by Samuel Johnson - 1772
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 448 pages
...foon obey ; So hear the fcaly herd when Proteus blows, And fo to pafture follow through the fea. 16. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rife. 17Whether they un&uous exhalations are, Fir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone : Or each fome more remote...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 318 pages
...fcon obey ; So hear the fcaly herd when Proteus blows, And fo to pafture follow through the fea. 1 6. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rile. 17Whether they unftuous exhalations are, Fir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone : Or each fome...
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Original Poems, Volume 1

John Dryden - English poetry - 1773 - 260 pages
...foon obey; So hear the fealy herd when * Proteus blows, And fo to pafture follow through the fea. XVI. To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heay'n, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rife. XVI!. Whether they...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42

John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...So hear the scaly herd when * Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea. XVI. Io see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skie1l - " Caruleus Proteus tmmanta ponti " Armenta et magnaspastitsub gurgtte phocal. And Heav'n,...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...the lines that immediately follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different? To fee this fleet upon the...Bergen will afford a very compleat fpecimen of the defcriptions in this poem : And And now approach'd their fleet from India fraught, With all the riches...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...the lines that immediately follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different? To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the Ikies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, i For tapers made two glaring comets rife. .f The...
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Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 476 pages
...the lines that immediately follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? • To fee this fleet upon...; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For fapers made two glaring comets rife. The defcription of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very compleat...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? To fee this fleet upon the ocear? move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the fkies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For fapers made two glaring comets rife. The defcription of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very compleat...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...the lines that immediately follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? To fee this fleet upon...the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the Ikies ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above. For tapers made two glaring comets rife. The defcription...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...the lines that immediately follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? To fee this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide trfe curtains of the fkles ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, ,F-or tapers made two glaring...
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