A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 6For R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1763 - 336 pages |
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... Some grotto's dripping arch , at height of noon To flumber , fhelter'd from the burning heaven . Where shall my fong begin , ye Nymphs ? or end ? Wide is your praife and copious - Firft of things , First of the lonely powers , ere Time ...
... Some grotto's dripping arch , at height of noon To flumber , fhelter'd from the burning heaven . Where shall my fong begin , ye Nymphs ? or end ? Wide is your praife and copious - Firft of things , First of the lonely powers , ere Time ...
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... Some Hero's ashes issue from the tomb , And live a vegetative life again . For matter dies not , as the Sages fay , But shifts to other forms the pliant mass , When the free spirit quits its cumb'rous clay , And fees , beneath , the ...
... Some Hero's ashes issue from the tomb , And live a vegetative life again . For matter dies not , as the Sages fay , But shifts to other forms the pliant mass , When the free spirit quits its cumb'rous clay , And fees , beneath , the ...
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... some devour . When Nature govern'd , and when Man was young , Perhaps at will th ' untutor'd Savage rov'd , Where waters murmur'd , and where clusters hung He fed , and flept beneath the shade he lov'd . But fince the Sage's more ...
... some devour . When Nature govern'd , and when Man was young , Perhaps at will th ' untutor'd Savage rov'd , Where waters murmur'd , and where clusters hung He fed , and flept beneath the shade he lov'd . But fince the Sage's more ...
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... fome votive tablet found , And ftoried wonders dignified the place . The Infula Tiberina , where there are still some small remains of the famous temple of Æfculapius . Oft Oft from the balmy bleffings of repose , And the [ 54 }
... fome votive tablet found , And ftoried wonders dignified the place . The Infula Tiberina , where there are still some small remains of the famous temple of Æfculapius . Oft Oft from the balmy bleffings of repose , And the [ 54 }
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... some headlong steep , With each dire form Imagination wears When harrafs'd Nature finks in turbid fleep ) Oft in his dreams he faw diffufive day Through bursting glooms its cheerful beams extend ; On billowy clouds faw sportive Genii ...
... some headlong steep , With each dire form Imagination wears When harrafs'd Nature finks in turbid fleep ) Oft in his dreams he faw diffufive day Through bursting glooms its cheerful beams extend ; On billowy clouds faw sportive Genii ...
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