Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas TomkinsJ. Wallis, 1782 - 204 pages |
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Page 65
... fons , and daughters yet unborn ,, In crowding ranks on ev'ry fide arife , Demanding life , impatient for the skies ! See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend , Walk in thy light , and in thy temple bend ; See thy bright altars throng ...
... fons , and daughters yet unborn ,, In crowding ranks on ev'ry fide arife , Demanding life , impatient for the skies ! See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend , Walk in thy light , and in thy temple bend ; See thy bright altars throng ...
Page 75
... fons may want What now , with hard reluctance , faint ye give . The lovely young Lavinia once had friends , And fortune fmil'd , deceitful , on her birth : For in her helplefs years depriv'd of all , Of every stay save Innocence and ...
... fons may want What now , with hard reluctance , faint ye give . The lovely young Lavinia once had friends , And fortune fmil'd , deceitful , on her birth : For in her helplefs years depriv'd of all , Of every stay save Innocence and ...
Page 93
... fons with envious eyes , The relics of our store . XIII . Thus hand in hand through life we'll go , Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious iteps we'll tread ; Quit its vain scenes without a tear , Without a trouble or a fear ...
... fons with envious eyes , The relics of our store . XIII . Thus hand in hand through life we'll go , Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious iteps we'll tread ; Quit its vain scenes without a tear , Without a trouble or a fear ...
Page 94
... fons of light , Angels ! for ye behold him , and with fongs And choral fymphonies , day without night , Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in heaven , On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him firft , him laft , him midft and without ...
... fons of light , Angels ! for ye behold him , and with fongs And choral fymphonies , day without night , Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in heaven , On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him firft , him laft , him midft and without ...
Page 132
... fons were yet difgrac'd , And heathen gods were all the taste , Full oft ( we read ) ' twas Jove's high will To take an air on Ida's hill . It chanc'd , as once with ferious ken He view'd from thence the ways of men , He faw ( and pity ...
... fons were yet difgrac'd , And heathen gods were all the taste , Full oft ( we read ) ' twas Jove's high will To take an air on Ida's hill . It chanc'd , as once with ferious ken He view'd from thence the ways of men , He faw ( and pity ...
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