Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... fires ! Slow comes the verse , that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected fuits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My foul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
... fires ! Slow comes the verse , that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected fuits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My foul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
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... fires rage most , and loudeft engines play . Namure's late terrors and deftruction show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with juft revenge , can do : Where Where once a thousand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded 12 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
... fires rage most , and loudeft engines play . Namure's late terrors and deftruction show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with juft revenge , can do : Where Where once a thousand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded 12 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
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... fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , [ flow'd . And planks , and arms , and men , promifcuous Spain's numerous fleet that perifh'd on our coaft , Cou'd scarce a longer line of battle boast , The winds could hardly ...
... fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , [ flow'd . And planks , and arms , and men , promifcuous Spain's numerous fleet that perifh'd on our coaft , Cou'd scarce a longer line of battle boast , The winds could hardly ...
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... fire the air they streak , And hurl destruction round ' em where they break ; The fkies with long ascending flames are bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce eruptions broke , Fills heav'n with ...
... fire the air they streak , And hurl destruction round ' em where they break ; The fkies with long ascending flames are bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce eruptions broke , Fills heav'n with ...
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... fire [ retire . Amidft a thousand fhips , and made all Greece But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames difperft on ev'ry shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from fea to fea ...
... fire [ retire . Amidft a thousand fhips , and made all Greece But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames difperft on ev'ry shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from fea to fea ...
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