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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... arms to court your friendship ? You fhe owns The fair affociates who extend her fway Wide o'er the mighty deep ; and grateful things Of you fhe uttereth , oft as from the shore Of Thames , or Medway's vale , or the green banks Of Vecta ...
... arms to court your friendship ? You fhe owns The fair affociates who extend her fway Wide o'er the mighty deep ; and grateful things Of you fhe uttereth , oft as from the shore Of Thames , or Medway's vale , or the green banks Of Vecta ...
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... arm the hand of liberty for war : And give , in fecret , the Britannic name To awe contending monarchs : yet benign , Yet mild of nature : to the works of peace More prone , and lenient of the many ills Which wait on human life . Your ...
... arm the hand of liberty for war : And give , in fecret , the Britannic name To awe contending monarchs : yet benign , Yet mild of nature : to the works of peace More prone , and lenient of the many ills Which wait on human life . Your ...
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... arm , with food to win Sick appetite , or hush the unquiet breast Which pines with filent paffion ) he in vain Hath prov'd ; to your deep manfions he defcends . Your gates of humid rock , your dim arcades , He entereth ; where impurpled ...
... arm , with food to win Sick appetite , or hush the unquiet breast Which pines with filent paffion ) he in vain Hath prov'd ; to your deep manfions he defcends . Your gates of humid rock , your dim arcades , He entereth ; where impurpled ...
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... thy own EDWARD teach his race , Though Gaul's proud genius fank beneath his hand . V. I. From rich domains and fubject farms , They led the ruftic youth to arms ; B 3 And And kings their stern atchievements fear'd ; " While private [ 21 ]
... thy own EDWARD teach his race , Though Gaul's proud genius fank beneath his hand . V. I. From rich domains and fubject farms , They led the ruftic youth to arms ; B 3 And And kings their stern atchievements fear'd ; " While private [ 21 ]
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... arms , nor manly counsel knows . V. 3 . ' Tis highest heaven's command , That guilty aims fhould fordid paths pursue ; That what enfnares the heart should curb the hand , And virtue's worthless foes be false to glory too . But look on ...
... arms , nor manly counsel knows . V. 3 . ' Tis highest heaven's command , That guilty aims fhould fordid paths pursue ; That what enfnares the heart should curb the hand , And virtue's worthless foes be false to glory too . But look on ...
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