Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... death renews its date , And kind deftruction but prolongs his fate . O thou , fays he , whom harmless fires fhall burn , Thy age the flame to fecond youth shall turn , An infant's cradle is thy fun'ral urn . ---- Thrice happy Phoenix ...
... death renews its date , And kind deftruction but prolongs his fate . O thou , fays he , whom harmless fires fhall burn , Thy age the flame to fecond youth shall turn , An infant's cradle is thy fun'ral urn . ---- Thrice happy Phoenix ...
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Joseph Addison. By death thy deathless vigour is supply'd , Which finks to ruin all the world befide . Thy age , not thee , affifting Phoebus burns , And vital flames light up thy fun'ral Urns . Whate'er events have been thy eyes furvey ...
Joseph Addison. By death thy deathless vigour is supply'd , Which finks to ruin all the world befide . Thy age , not thee , affifting Phoebus burns , And vital flames light up thy fun'ral Urns . Whate'er events have been thy eyes furvey ...
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... death of his nephew Caligula , - Claudius was in no fmall apprehenfion for his own life , he was , contrary to his expectation , well received among the Prætorian guards , and afterwards declared their Emperor . His reception is here re ...
... death of his nephew Caligula , - Claudius was in no fmall apprehenfion for his own life , he was , contrary to his expectation , well received among the Prætorian guards , and afterwards declared their Emperor . His reception is here re ...
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... Death his call obeys ? Threat'ning he rears his knotty tail on high , The vaft Orion thus he doom'd to die , And fix'd him , his proud trophy , in the sky . Mr. Rowe . } The three figures you have here fhown us , fays Eu- genius , give ...
... Death his call obeys ? Threat'ning he rears his knotty tail on high , The vaft Orion thus he doom'd to die , And fix'd him , his proud trophy , in the sky . Mr. Rowe . } The three figures you have here fhown us , fays Eu- genius , give ...
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... death of Scorpus a chariot - driver , which in those degenerate times of the Empire was looked up- on as a public calamity . Triftis Idumæas frangat Victoria palmas ; Plange Favor Java pectora nuda manu . Mart . Lib . 10. Epig . 50 ...
... death of Scorpus a chariot - driver , which in those degenerate times of the Empire was looked up- on as a public calamity . Triftis Idumæas frangat Victoria palmas ; Plange Favor Java pectora nuda manu . Mart . Lib . 10. Epig . 50 ...
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