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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... pains to excel in any thing , when there is not some hope of excelling others in reward and dignity . " There are two reasons chiefly alleged against our church - government . " First , Scripture , which , as some men think , points out ...
... pains to excel in any thing , when there is not some hope of excelling others in reward and dignity . " There are two reasons chiefly alleged against our church - government . " First , Scripture , which , as some men think , points out ...
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... 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 staid , nor euer lookt behinde . Through thicke ...
... 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 staid , nor euer lookt behinde . Through thicke ...
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... pains to adorn . My lord Ros- common was more impartial : no man ever rhymed truer and evener than he : yet he is so just as to confess , that it is but a trifle ; and to wish the tyrant dethroned , and blank verse set up in its room ...
... pains to adorn . My lord Ros- common was more impartial : no man ever rhymed truer and evener than he : yet he is so just as to confess , that it is but a trifle ; and to wish the tyrant dethroned , and blank verse set up in its room ...
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... pains : But for Sacharissa I Do not only grieve , but die . All that of myself is mine , Lovely Amoret ! is thine , Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain ; And , those scorching beams to shun , To thy gentle shadow run ...
... pains : But for Sacharissa I Do not only grieve , but die . All that of myself is mine , Lovely Amoret ! is thine , Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain ; And , those scorching beams to shun , To thy gentle shadow run ...
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... pain , That , languishing , you conquer more , And wound is deeper than before , So lightnings , which in storms appear , Scorch more than when the skies are clear . And as pale sickness does invade Your frailer part , the breaches made ...
... pain , That , languishing , you conquer more , And wound is deeper than before , So lightnings , which in storms appear , Scorch more than when the skies are clear . And as pale sickness does invade Your frailer part , the breaches made ...
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