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Page xxxii
... 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 ( cars , 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 ( cars , and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots , who for facred ...
Page xxxiv
... show'd us the wife course to steer , A candid cenfor , and a friend severe ; There taught us how to live ; and ( oh ! too high The price for knowledge ) taught us how to die . Thou Hill , whose brow the antique structuresgrace , Rear'd ...
... show'd us the wife course to steer , A candid cenfor , and a friend severe ; There taught us how to live ; and ( oh ! too high The price for knowledge ) taught us how to die . Thou Hill , whose brow the antique structuresgrace , Rear'd ...
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... show How thy own Laurel first began to grow ; How wild Lycaon chang'd by angry Gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling , through the Woods . O mayft thou still the noble Task prolong , Nor Age , nor Sickness interrupt thy fong ...
... show How thy own Laurel first began to grow ; How wild Lycaon chang'd by angry Gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling , through the Woods . O mayft thou still the noble Task prolong , Nor Age , nor Sickness interrupt thy fong ...
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... show , And Boyn be Sung , when it has ceas'd to Flow ; Here Gallick labours fhall advance thy fame , And here Seneffe Thall wear Another name . Our late Pofterity , with fecret dread , Shall view thy Battels , and with Pleasure read How ...
... show , And Boyn be Sung , when it has ceas'd to Flow ; Here Gallick labours fhall advance thy fame , And here Seneffe Thall wear Another name . Our late Pofterity , with fecret dread , Shall view thy Battels , and with Pleasure read How ...
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... show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with juft 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 fimoaking on the ...
... show , What WILLIAM , warm'd with juft 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 fimoaking on the ...
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