Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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Page 168
... shining fabric to the ground : Thrice should her captive dames to Greece return , And their dead fons and flaughter'd husbands mourn . But hold , my Mufe , forbear thy tow'ring flight , Nor bring the fecrets of the gods to light : In ...
... shining fabric to the ground : Thrice should her captive dames to Greece return , And their dead fons and flaughter'd husbands mourn . But hold , my Mufe , forbear thy tow'ring flight , Nor bring the fecrets of the gods to light : In ...
Page 214
... shining virgins fill'd the plain . The God well - pleas'd beheld the pompous show , And saw the bright proceffion pafs below ; Then veer'd about , and took a wheeling flight , And hover'd o'er them : As the fpreading kite , That smells ...
... shining virgins fill'd the plain . The God well - pleas'd beheld the pompous show , And saw the bright proceffion pafs below ; Then veer'd about , and took a wheeling flight , And hover'd o'er them : As the fpreading kite , That smells ...
Page 236
... shining Goddess stood , When young Actaon , wilder'd in the wood , To the cool grot by his hard fate betray'd , The fountains fill'd with naked nymphs furvey'd . The frighted virgins fhriek'd at the surprise , ( The foreft echo'd with ...
... shining Goddess stood , When young Actaon , wilder'd in the wood , To the cool grot by his hard fate betray'd , The fountains fill'd with naked nymphs furvey'd . The frighted virgins fhriek'd at the surprise , ( The foreft echo'd with ...
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Aëre æther arms atque BAROMETRI beauties bleft bluſhes boaſt breaſt bright Cadmus caft courſe Cycnus defcription deſcribed diſtant ev'ry eyes faid fame fate fatire fays fecret feven fhade fhall fhining fhore fhould fide fight fince fire firft firſt fkies flain foft fome foul ftand ftill ftrength fubject fuch fuci Gaul Georgic Goddeſs Gods greateſt Gulfton heav'n himſelf itſelf Jove laft laſt loft maid mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt neighb'ring numbers Nunc nymph o'er omne Ovid Ovid's Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure poem poet praiſe purſue Quæ rage raiſe reft rife rifu riſe round ſcenes ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhore ſhow ſkies ſky ſmoke ſpeak ſpring ſtands ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtory ſtreams thee theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thunder transform'd turba verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin waſte Whilft whoſe winds woods wou'd youth