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... also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto us ? Is thy pride dashed down to Orcus , the noise of thy harps ? The worm is ftrewn under thee , the earth - worm is thy covering ! The Jews are again reprefented speaking : they most ...
... also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto us ? Is thy pride dashed down to Orcus , the noise of thy harps ? The worm is ftrewn under thee , the earth - worm is thy covering ! The Jews are again reprefented speaking : they most ...
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... also finely imagined , The figur'd ftreams in waves of filver roll'd , And on their banks Augusta rose in gold ‡ . He has with exquifite fkill felected only those rivers as attendants of Thames , who are his subjects , his tributaries ...
... also finely imagined , The figur'd ftreams in waves of filver roll'd , And on their banks Augusta rose in gold ‡ . He has with exquifite fkill felected only those rivers as attendants of Thames , who are his subjects , his tributaries ...
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... prefent's still a cloudy day . * In this light also his poem on the Ruins of Rome deferves a perufal . Dodfley's Miscell . vol . i . pag . 78 . D 2 THE THE unexpected infertion of fuch reflec- tions , imparts to AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 35.
... prefent's still a cloudy day . * In this light also his poem on the Ruins of Rome deferves a perufal . Dodfley's Miscell . vol . i . pag . 78 . D 2 THE THE unexpected infertion of fuch reflec- tions , imparts to AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 35.
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... also of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of its de- scription are great , and striking to the imagi- nation ; the falfe deities of the Heathen for- faking their temples on the birth of our Saviour ; faking 36 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS ...
... also of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of its de- scription are great , and striking to the imagi- nation ; the falfe deities of the Heathen for- faking their temples on the birth of our Saviour ; faking 36 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS ...
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... also with the following image , which is fo ftrongly conceived , that methinks I see at this inftant the dæmon it represents ; And fullen Moloch fled Hath left in fhadows dread , His burning idol all of blackeft hue ; In vain with ...
... also with the following image , which is fo ftrongly conceived , that methinks I see at this inftant the dæmon it represents ; And fullen Moloch fled Hath left in fhadows dread , His burning idol all of blackeft hue ; In vain with ...
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