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... subject of this Poem . The materials for the Dialogues upon Medals , now firft printed from a ma- nufcript of the Author , were collected in the native country of thofe Coins . The book it felf was begun to be caft into form at Vienna ...
... subject of this Poem . The materials for the Dialogues upon Medals , now firft printed from a ma- nufcript of the Author , were collected in the native country of thofe Coins . The book it felf was begun to be caft into form at Vienna ...
Page 5
... Subject of my song's To You the Hero of my verfe reveals His great Designs , to You in Council tells His Inmoft thoughts , determining the doom of Towns Unftorm'd , and Battels yet to come . And well cou'd You , in Your Immortal strains ...
... Subject of my song's To You the Hero of my verfe reveals His great Designs , to You in Council tells His Inmoft thoughts , determining the doom of Towns Unftorm'd , and Battels yet to come . And well cou'd You , in Your Immortal strains ...
Page 32
... Subject of our fong . II . Let all Cecilia's praise proclaim , Employ the Echo in her name . Hark how the Flutes and Trumpets raise , At bright Cecilia's name , their lays ; The Organ labours in her praise . Cecilia's name does all our ...
... Subject of our fong . II . Let all Cecilia's praise proclaim , Employ the Echo in her name . Hark how the Flutes and Trumpets raise , At bright Cecilia's name , their lays ; The Organ labours in her praise . Cecilia's name does all our ...
Page 91
... subject pays .. So tries the artlefs Lark her early flight , And foars , to hail the God of verfe , and light . Unrival'd as thy merit be thy fame , And thy own laurels shade thy envy'd name : Thy name , the kaast of all the tunaful ...
... subject pays .. So tries the artlefs Lark her early flight , And foars , to hail the God of verfe , and light . Unrival'd as thy merit be thy fame , And thy own laurels shade thy envy'd name : Thy name , the kaast of all the tunaful ...
Page 241
... subject as the burning of the world . P. 160. l . 15. The Earth at length , & c . ] We have here a fpeech of the Earth , which will doubtless feem very unnatural to an English reader . It is I believe the boldest Prosopopoeia of any in ...
... subject as the burning of the world . P. 160. l . 15. The Earth at length , & c . ] We have here a fpeech of the Earth , which will doubtless feem very unnatural to an English reader . It is I believe the boldest Prosopopoeia of any in ...
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