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... fight Among the livid gleams of night . There pafs , with melancholy ftate , By all the folemn heaps of fate , And think , as , foftly - fad , you tread Above the venerable dead , " Time was , like thee they life poffeft , And time ...
... fight Among the livid gleams of night . There pafs , with melancholy ftate , By all the folemn heaps of fate , And think , as , foftly - fad , you tread Above the venerable dead , " Time was , like thee they life poffeft , And time ...
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... fight ; " Nor have I caufe of dreed , he faid , Who view , by no prefumption led , Your revels of the night . ' Twas grief , for scorn of faithful love , Which made my steps unweeting rove Amid the nightly dew . " ' Tis well , the ...
... fight ; " Nor have I caufe of dreed , he faid , Who view , by no prefumption led , Your revels of the night . ' Twas grief , for scorn of faithful love , Which made my steps unweeting rove Amid the nightly dew . " ' Tis well , the ...
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... fight ; For there the tranfitory train , Of time , and form , and care , and pain , And matter's grofs incumb'ring mass , Man's late affociates , cannot pass , But , finking , quit th ' immortal charge , And leave the wond'ring foul at ...
... fight ; For there the tranfitory train , Of time , and form , and care , and pain , And matter's grofs incumb'ring mass , Man's late affociates , cannot pass , But , finking , quit th ' immortal charge , And leave the wond'ring foul at ...
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... fight ; - For not of earth's unequal frame They deem'd the heav'n - compounded Dame , If matter , fure the moft refin'd , High wrought , and temper'd into mind , Some darling daughter of the day , And body'd by her native ray . Where ...
... fight ; - For not of earth's unequal frame They deem'd the heav'n - compounded Dame , If matter , fure the moft refin'd , High wrought , and temper'd into mind , Some darling daughter of the day , And body'd by her native ray . Where ...
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... fight ; Loofe flow'd her garments from the ground , And caught the kiffing winds around . As , erft , Medufa's looks were known To turn beholders into ftone , A dire reverfion here they felt , And in the eye of Pleasure melt . Her ...
... fight ; Loofe flow'd her garments from the ground , And caught the kiffing winds around . As , erft , Medufa's looks were known To turn beholders into ftone , A dire reverfion here they felt , And in the eye of Pleasure melt . Her ...
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Page 98 - ... immortal ! infeft infinite ! A worm ! a god ! — I tremble at myfelf, And in myfelf am loft ! at home a ftranger, Thought wanders up and down, furpriz'd, aghaft, And wond'ring at her own: How reafon reels ? O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly diftrefs'd ! what joy, what dread...