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Page 56
... O'er death and o'er hell , A conqueft how hard and how glorious ! Tho ' fate had faft bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious , One would imagine that John Dennis , or fome hero of the Dunciad , had ...
... O'er death and o'er hell , A conqueft how hard and how glorious ! Tho ' fate had faft bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious , One would imagine that John Dennis , or fome hero of the Dunciad , had ...
Page 141
... o'er the vales , and seem to tread the fky , Th'eternal fnows appear already past , And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But , those attain'd , we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th ...
... o'er the vales , and seem to tread the fky , Th'eternal fnows appear already past , And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But , those attain'd , we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th ...
Page 334
... o'er the deeps ; Sudden you mount , you beckon from the skies , Clouds interpofe , & c . These are , indifputably , picturesque lines ; but what we want is a VISION of fome fuch appropriated , and peculiar diftress , as could be ...
... o'er the deeps ; Sudden you mount , you beckon from the skies , Clouds interpofe , & c . These are , indifputably , picturesque lines ; but what we want is a VISION of fome fuch appropriated , and peculiar diftress , as could be ...
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