Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... fate , Who , free from vulgar paffions , are above Degrading envy , or misguided love ; 1 If you , well pleas'd , shall smile upon my lays , Secure of fame , my voice I'll boldly raise , For next to what you write , is what you praise ...
... fate , Who , free from vulgar paffions , are above Degrading envy , or misguided love ; 1 If you , well pleas'd , shall smile upon my lays , Secure of fame , my voice I'll boldly raise , For next to what you write , is what you praise ...
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... 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 , and fung the man Who , driv ...
... 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 , and fung the man Who , driv ...
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... 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 show , And Boyn be fung , when it ...
... 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 show , And Boyn be fung , when it ...
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... fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where - e'er the waves in restless errors roll , The fea lies open now to either pole : Now may we fafely use the Northern gales , And in the Polar Circle fpread our fails : Or deep in ...
... fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where - e'er the waves in restless errors roll , The fea lies open now to either pole : Now may we fafely use the Northern gales , And in the Polar Circle fpread our fails : Or deep in ...
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... Me into foreign realms my fate conveys , Through nations fruitful of immortal lays , E 4 Where U la dolce ftagion , e'l vago clima Fanno , [ 55 ] A Letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, in the year 170!,
... Me into foreign realms my fate conveys , Through nations fruitful of immortal lays , E 4 Where U la dolce ftagion , e'l vago clima Fanno , [ 55 ] A Letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, in the year 170!,
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