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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 difmal 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 difmal night , that gave My foul's best part for - ever to the grave ! How ...
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... Fires rage moft , and loudest Engines play . Namure's late Terrours and Destruction 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 ...
... Fires rage moft , and loudest Engines play . Namure's late Terrours and Destruction 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 ...
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... Fire ; The Waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were firow'd , And Planks , and Arms , and Men , promifcuous flow'd . Spain's numerous Fleet that perifht on our coast , Cou'd scarce a longer Line of battel boast , The Winds cou'd hardly ...
... Fire ; The Waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were firow'd , And Planks , and Arms , and Men , promifcuous flow'd . Spain's numerous Fleet that perifht on our coast , Cou'd scarce a longer Line of battel boast , The Winds cou'd hardly ...
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... fire the air they freak , And hurl destruction round ' em where they break ; The Skies with long ascending Flames are bright , And all the Sea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce Eruptions broke , Fills Heav'n with ...
... fire the air they freak , And hurl destruction round ' em where they break ; The Skies with long ascending Flames are bright , And all the Sea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce Eruptions broke , Fills Heav'n with ...
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... Fire Amidst a thousand Ships , and made all Greece retire . But who can run the British Triumphs o'er , And count the Flames disperst on ev'ry Shore ? Who can defcribe the scatter'd Victory , And draw the Reader on from Sea to Sea ...
... Fire Amidst a thousand Ships , and made all Greece retire . But who can run the British Triumphs o'er , And count the Flames disperst on ev'ry Shore ? Who can defcribe the scatter'd Victory , And draw the Reader on from Sea to Sea ...
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