The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry |
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... skies . W. WYCHERLEY . TO MR . POPE , ON HIS WINDSOR - FOREST . HAIL ! facred bard ! a mufe unknown before Salutes thee from the bleak Atlantic fhore . To our dark world thy fhining page is fhewn , And Windfor's gay retreat becomes our ...
... skies . W. WYCHERLEY . TO MR . POPE , ON HIS WINDSOR - FOREST . HAIL ! facred bard ! a mufe unknown before Salutes thee from the bleak Atlantic fhore . To our dark world thy fhining page is fhewn , And Windfor's gay retreat becomes our ...
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... skies yet blushing with departing light , When falling dews with fpangles deck'd the glade , And the low fun had lengthen'd every shade . 100 LYCIDAS . THYRSIS , the mufic of that murmuring spring Is not fo mournful as the strains you ...
... skies yet blushing with departing light , When falling dews with fpangles deck'd the glade , And the low fun had lengthen'd every shade . 100 LYCIDAS . THYRSIS , the mufic of that murmuring spring Is not fo mournful as the strains you ...
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... skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely defert cheers ; Prepare the way ! a God , a God appears ! IMITATIONS . 30 Ifaiah , Ch . vii . ver . 14. " Behold a Virgin " fhall conceive and bear a Son - Chap . ix . ver . " 6 , 7. Unto us a ...
... skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely defert cheers ; Prepare the way ! a God , a God appears ! IMITATIONS . 30 Ifaiah , Ch . vii . ver . 14. " Behold a Virgin " fhall conceive and bear a Son - Chap . ix . ver . " 6 , 7. Unto us a ...
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... skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend , And harmless ‡ serpents lick the pilgrim's feet . 80 Walk in thy light , and in thy temple bend ; IMITATIONS . " The fields fhall grow yellow with ripen'd " ears , and the red grape ...
... skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend , And harmless ‡ serpents lick the pilgrim's feet . 80 Walk in thy light , and in thy temple bend ; IMITATIONS . " The fields fhall grow yellow with ripen'd " ears , and the red grape ...
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... skies ; To fing thofe honours you deserve to wear , And add new luftre to her filver ftar . Here noble Surrey felt the facred rage , Surrey , the Granville of a former age : Matchlefs his pen , victorious was his lance , Buid in the ...
... skies ; To fing thofe honours you deserve to wear , And add new luftre to her filver ftar . Here noble Surrey felt the facred rage , Surrey , the Granville of a former age : Matchlefs his pen , victorious was his lance , Buid in the ...
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