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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... voice Denounc'd her terrours on their impious heads , And shook her burning Ægis . Xerxes faw : From Heracleum , on the mountain's highth Thron'd in his golden car , he knew the fign Cœleftial ; felt unrighteous hope forfake His ...
... voice Denounc'd her terrours on their impious heads , And shook her burning Ægis . Xerxes faw : From Heracleum , on the mountain's highth Thron'd in his golden car , he knew the fign Cœleftial ; felt unrighteous hope forfake His ...
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... voices through the liquid air exalt , And sweep their lofty ftrings : those awful frings , That charm the mind of Gods : that fill the courts Of wide Olympus with oblivion sweet Of evils , with immortal rest from cares ; Affuage the ...
... voices through the liquid air exalt , And sweep their lofty ftrings : those awful frings , That charm the mind of Gods : that fill the courts Of wide Olympus with oblivion sweet Of evils , with immortal rest from cares ; Affuage the ...
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... cliff , the dames Of Thrace , the Satyrs , and the unruly Fauns , With old Silenus , through the midnight gloom Toffing the torch impure , and high in air The The brandish'd Thyrfus , to the Phrygian pipe's Shrill voice [ 13 ]
... cliff , the dames Of Thrace , the Satyrs , and the unruly Fauns , With old Silenus , through the midnight gloom Toffing the torch impure , and high in air The The brandish'd Thyrfus , to the Phrygian pipe's Shrill voice [ 13 ]
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Robert Dodsley. The brandish'd Thyrfus , to the Phrygian pipe's Shrill voice , and to the clashing cymbals , mix'd With fhrieks and frantic uproar . May the Gods From every unpolluted ear avert Their orgies ! If within the feats of men ...
Robert Dodsley. The brandish'd Thyrfus , to the Phrygian pipe's Shrill voice , and to the clashing cymbals , mix'd With fhrieks and frantic uproar . May the Gods From every unpolluted ear avert Their orgies ! If within the feats of men ...
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... voice protect thy country's fame . " III . 3 . Yet hence barbaric zeal His memory with unholy rage pursues While from thefe arduous cares of public weal She bids each bard begone , and reft him with his Mufe . O fool ! to think the man ...
... voice protect thy country's fame . " III . 3 . Yet hence barbaric zeal His memory with unholy rage pursues While from thefe arduous cares of public weal She bids each bard begone , and reft him with his Mufe . O fool ! to think the man ...
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