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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... brave a charge ; With painted oars the youths begin to sweep Neptune's smooth face , and cleave the yielding deep : Which soon becomes the seat of sudden war Between the wind and tide , that fiercely jar . As when a sort of lusty ...
... brave a charge ; With painted oars the youths begin to sweep Neptune's smooth face , and cleave the yielding deep : Which soon becomes the seat of sudden war Between the wind and tide , that fiercely jar . As when a sort of lusty ...
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... brave , and bold , Some had already touch'd the royal maid , But Love's first summons seldom are obey'd : Light was the wound , the prince's care unknown , She might not , would not , yet reveal her own . His glorious name had so ...
... brave , and bold , Some had already touch'd the royal maid , But Love's first summons seldom are obey'd : Light was the wound , the prince's care unknown , She might not , would not , yet reveal her own . His glorious name had so ...
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... brave romance , who would exactly frame , First brings his knight from some immortal dame : And then a weapon , and a flaming shield , Bright as his mother's eyes , he makes him wield ; None might the mother of Achilles be , But the ...
... brave romance , who would exactly frame , First brings his knight from some immortal dame : And then a weapon , and a flaming shield , Bright as his mother's eyes , he makes him wield ; None might the mother of Achilles be , But the ...
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... brave Æmilius , his great charge laid down , ( The force of Rome , and fate of Macedon ) In his lost sons did feel the cruel stroke Of changing fortune ; and thus highly spoke Before Rome's people : " We did oft implore , That if the ...
... brave Æmilius , his great charge laid down , ( The force of Rome , and fate of Macedon ) In his lost sons did feel the cruel stroke Of changing fortune ; and thus highly spoke Before Rome's people : " We did oft implore , That if the ...
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... brave friends 4 had jarr'd ; And , rivals made , th ' ensuing story marr'd . Just Nature , first instructed by his thought , In his own house thus practis'd what he taught : This glorious piece transcends what he could think ; So much ...
... brave friends 4 had jarr'd ; And , rivals made , th ' ensuing story marr'd . Just Nature , first instructed by his thought , In his own house thus practis'd what he taught : This glorious piece transcends what he could think ; So much ...
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