Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... Gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . 1 O may'st thou ftill the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness interrupt thy song : Then may we wond'ring read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv ...
... Gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . 1 O may'st thou ftill the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness interrupt thy song : Then may we wond'ring read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv ...
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... God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too late the verse the mighty act fucceeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full fucceffion ran , Ere Virgil rais'd his voice ...
... God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too late the verse the mighty act fucceeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full fucceffion ran , Ere Virgil rais'd his voice ...
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... gods . 1 And here , perhaps , by fate's unerring doom , Some mighty bard lies hid in years to come , That shall in WILLIAM'S God - like acts engage , And with his battles warm a future age , Hibernian fields shall here thy conquests ...
... gods . 1 And here , perhaps , by fate's unerring doom , Some mighty bard lies hid in years to come , That shall in WILLIAM'S God - like acts engage , And with his battles warm a future age , Hibernian fields shall here thy conquests ...
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... Gods confpire to make him great . Thy navy rides on feas before unpreft , And strikes a terror through the haughty Eaft ; Algiers and Tunis from their fultry shore With horror hear the British engines roar , Fain from the neighb'ring ...
... Gods confpire to make him great . Thy navy rides on feas before unpreft , And strikes a terror through the haughty Eaft ; Algiers and Tunis from their fultry shore With horror hear the British engines roar , Fain from the neighb'ring ...
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... God - like acts refuse , Ormond the theme of ev'ry Oxford Muse ? Fain wou'd I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the noble chase of fame , Through all the noise and hurry of the fight , Obferve each blow , and keep him ftill ...
... God - like acts refuse , Ormond the theme of ev'ry Oxford Muse ? Fain wou'd I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the noble chase of fame , Through all the noise and hurry of the fight , Obferve each blow , and keep him ftill ...
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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