The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... These petitioners lately did look upon 2 This speech has been retrieved , from a paper printed at that time , by the writers of the Parliamentary History . Dr. J. episcopacy as a beast armed with horns and claws ; 6 LIFE OF WALLER .
... These petitioners lately did look upon 2 This speech has been retrieved , from a paper printed at that time , by the writers of the Parliamentary History . Dr. J. episcopacy as a beast armed with horns and claws ; 6 LIFE OF WALLER .
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... beast armed with horns and claws ; but now that we have cut and pared them ( and may , if we see cause , yet reduce it into narrower bounds ) it may , perhaps , be more agreeable . Howsoever , if they be still in passion , it becomes us ...
... beast armed with horns and claws ; but now that we have cut and pared them ( and may , if we see cause , yet reduce it into narrower bounds ) it may , perhaps , be more agreeable . Howsoever , if they be still in passion , it becomes us ...
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... beast Tapisht in bush and brire , No art nor pains can rowse out of his place : The Christian knights so full of shame and ire Returned backe , with faint and wearie pace ! Yet still the fearfull dame fled , swift as winde , Nor euer ...
... beast Tapisht in bush and brire , No art nor pains can rowse out of his place : The Christian knights so full of shame and ire Returned backe , with faint and wearie pace ! Yet still the fearfull dame fled , swift as winde , Nor euer ...
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... beasts , or men as wild as they ! There the fair light , which all our island grac'd , Like Hero's taper in the window plac'd , Such fate from the malignant air did find , As that exposed to the boisterous wind . Ah , cruel Heaven ! to ...
... beasts , or men as wild as they ! There the fair light , which all our island grac'd , Like Hero's taper in the window plac'd , Such fate from the malignant air did find , As that exposed to the boisterous wind . Ah , cruel Heaven ! to ...
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... beast ! They man their boats , and all the young men With whatsoever may the monsters harm ; [ arm Pikes , halberts , spits , and darts that wound so far ; The tools of peace , and instruments of war . Now was the time for vigorous lads ...
... beast ! They man their boats , and all the young men With whatsoever may the monsters harm ; [ arm Pikes , halberts , spits , and darts that wound so far ; The tools of peace , and instruments of war . Now was the time for vigorous lads ...
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