Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... show What worthies form the hallow'd mold below : Proud names , who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ' ; Chiefs , grac'd with fears , and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots , who for facred ...
... show What worthies form the hallow'd mold below : Proud names , who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ' ; Chiefs , grac'd with fears , and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots , who for facred ...
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... show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with just Revenge , can do : Where once a thousand Turrets rais'd on high Their gilded Spires , and glitter'd in the sky , An undistinguish'd heap of Duft is found , And all the pile lies smoking on the ...
... show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with just Revenge , can do : Where once a thousand Turrets rais'd on high Their gilded Spires , and glitter'd in the sky , An undistinguish'd heap of Duft is found , And all the pile lies smoking on the ...
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... show their yellow bloom . For once I saw in the Tarentine vale , Where flow Galefus drencht the washy foil , An old Corician yeoman , who had got A few neglected acres to his lot , Where neither corn nor pasture grac'd the field ; Nor ...
... show their yellow bloom . For once I saw in the Tarentine vale , Where flow Galefus drencht the washy foil , An old Corician yeoman , who had got A few neglected acres to his lot , Where neither corn nor pasture grac'd the field ; Nor ...
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... show , So many dangling apples mellow'd on the bough . In rows his elms and knotty pear - trees bloom , And thorns ennobled now to bear a plumb , And spreading plane - trees , where supinely laid He now enjoys the cool , and quaffs ...
... show , So many dangling apples mellow'd on the bough . In rows his elms and knotty pear - trees bloom , And thorns ennobled now to bear a plumb , And spreading plane - trees , where supinely laid He now enjoys the cool , and quaffs ...
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... flatt'ring fongs , Can make the vanquifh'd great , the coward ftrong . Thy verfe can show ev'n Cromwell's innocence , And compliment the ftorm that bore him hence . Oh Oh had thy Muse not come an age too foon 38 Poems on feveral Occafions .
... flatt'ring fongs , Can make the vanquifh'd great , the coward ftrong . Thy verfe can show ev'n Cromwell's innocence , And compliment the ftorm that bore him hence . Oh Oh had thy Muse not come an age too foon 38 Poems on feveral Occafions .
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