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 |
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... How great the thought ! the images how warm ! How beautifully just the turns appear ! The language how majestically clear ! With energy divine each period fwells , And all the bard th ' infpiring God reveals . Loft in delights , my ...
... How great the thought ! the images how warm ! How beautifully just the turns appear ! The language how majestically clear ! With energy divine each period fwells , And all the bard th ' infpiring God reveals . Loft in delights , my ...
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... How great the thought ! the images how warm ! How beautifully juft the turns appear ! The language how majestically clear ! With energy divine each period fwells , And all the bard th ' infpiring God reveals . Loft in delights , my ...
... How great the thought ! the images how warm ! How beautifully juft the turns appear ! The language how majestically clear ! With energy divine each period fwells , And all the bard th ' infpiring God reveals . Loft in delights , my ...
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... how his ruftic numbers charm around , While groves to groves , and hills to hills refound ! The liftening beasts stand fearless as he fings , And birds attentive close their useless wings . The fwains and fatyrs trip it o'er the plain ...
... how his ruftic numbers charm around , While groves to groves , and hills to hills refound ! The liftening beasts stand fearless as he fings , And birds attentive close their useless wings . The fwains and fatyrs trip it o'er the plain ...
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... how much they. ELEGY To the memory of an Unfortunate Lady . WHAT beckoning ghoft , along the moonlight fhade , Invites my fteps , and points to yonder glade ? ' Tis fhe - but why that bleeding bofom gor'd , Why dimly gleams the visionary ...
... how much they. ELEGY To the memory of an Unfortunate Lady . WHAT beckoning ghoft , along the moonlight fhade , Invites my fteps , and points to yonder glade ? ' Tis fhe - but why that bleeding bofom gor'd , Why dimly gleams the visionary ...
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... how much they please . But when , with day , the sweet delufions fly , And all things wake to life and joy , but I ... How much I fear , but ah , how much I love ! I go , ye nymphs , where furious love infpires ; Let female fears fubnit ...
... how much they please . But when , with day , the sweet delufions fly , And all things wake to life and joy , but I ... How much I fear , but ah , how much I love ! I go , ye nymphs , where furious love infpires ; Let female fears fubnit ...
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