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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... natural and to the moral world . Their origin is deduced from the first allegorical deities , or powers of nature ; according to the doctrine of the old mythological poets , concerning the gene- ration of the Gods and the rife of things ...
... natural and to the moral world . Their origin is deduced from the first allegorical deities , or powers of nature ; according to the doctrine of the old mythological poets , concerning the gene- ration of the Gods and the rife of things ...
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... nature , Jove repays With generous wealth and his own feat on earth , Fit judgments to pronounce , and curb the might Of wicked men . Your kind unfailing urns Not vainly to the hofpitable arts Of Hermes yield their fiore . For , O ye ...
... nature , Jove repays With generous wealth and his own feat on earth , Fit judgments to pronounce , and curb the might Of wicked men . Your kind unfailing urns Not vainly to the hofpitable arts Of Hermes yield their fiore . For , O ye ...
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... nature : to the works of peace More prone , and lenient of the many ills Which wait on human life . Your gentle aid Hygeia well can witnefs ; fhe who faves , From poisonous cates and cups of pleafing bane , The wretch devoted to the ...
... nature : to the works of peace More prone , and lenient of the many ills Which wait on human life . Your gentle aid Hygeia well can witnefs ; fhe who faves , From poisonous cates and cups of pleafing bane , The wretch devoted to the ...
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... nature planted , or by fortune taught ; That He , if haply fome prefumptuous foe , With falfe ignoble science fraught , Shall fpurn at freedom's faithful band ; That He , their dear defence will fhun , Or hide their glories from the fun ...
... nature planted , or by fortune taught ; That He , if haply fome prefumptuous foe , With falfe ignoble science fraught , Shall fpurn at freedom's faithful band ; That He , their dear defence will fhun , Or hide their glories from the fun ...
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... nature to her offspring call , That to one general weal their different powers they bend , Unenvious . Thus alone , though strains divine Inform the bofom of the Mufe's fon ; Though with new honours the patrician's line Advance from age ...
... nature to her offspring call , That to one general weal their different powers they bend , Unenvious . Thus alone , though strains divine Inform the bofom of the Mufe's fon ; Though with new honours the patrician's line Advance from age ...
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