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Page 10
... flooding rains , Down the dry sand th ' o'erflowing marshes drains , When oozy rivers far and wide expand , And issuing vapours smoke along the land ? Yet when the sturdy swain and patient steer Have tam'd the land by many a toil severe ...
... flooding rains , Down the dry sand th ' o'erflowing marshes drains , When oozy rivers far and wide expand , And issuing vapours smoke along the land ? Yet when the sturdy swain and patient steer Have tam'd the land by many a toil severe ...
Page 16
... flood , Or fell the season'd pine that crown'd the wood . Thus observation reads the starry sphere , And fourfold parts , as seasons change , the year . Th'industrious peasants , shelter'd from the shower , To timely profit turn each ...
... flood , Or fell the season'd pine that crown'd the wood . Thus observation reads the starry sphere , And fourfold parts , as seasons change , the year . Th'industrious peasants , shelter'd from the shower , To timely profit turn each ...
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... flooded channels roar , Vext ocean's foaming billows rock the shore : 1 The Thunderer , thron'd in clouds , with darkness crown'd , Bares his red arm , and flashes lightnings round . The beasts are fled : earth rocks from pole to pole ...
... flooded channels roar , Vext ocean's foaming billows rock the shore : 1 The Thunderer , thron'd in clouds , with darkness crown'd , Bares his red arm , and flashes lightnings round . The beasts are fled : earth rocks from pole to pole ...
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... floods the Asian plain , Dash forth large drops that down their plumage glide , Dance on the billows , dive beneath the tide , In gay contention dip their wings in vain , And prelude , as they sport , th ' impending rain : But o'er dry ...
... floods the Asian plain , Dash forth large drops that down their plumage glide , Dance on the billows , dive beneath the tide , In gay contention dip their wings in vain , And prelude , as they sport , th ' impending rain : But o'er dry ...
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... floods ; earth widely yawns below , And beasts , in human accents , murmur'd woe . The ivory weeps ' mid consecrated walls , Sweat in big drops from brazen statues falls ; Monarch of rivers , raging far and wide , Eridanus GEORGICS ...
... floods ; earth widely yawns below , And beasts , in human accents , murmur'd woe . The ivory weeps ' mid consecrated walls , Sweat in big drops from brazen statues falls ; Monarch of rivers , raging far and wide , Eridanus GEORGICS ...
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æther arms ARTHUR MURPHY Bacchus battle Bees bend beneath blast blood bloom boughs bound breathe brood brow burst Cæsar caves cells Ceres Chaonian clouds courser crown'd Cyrene dark deep domes dread Drones Dryads earth Eurus Eurydice faithful band fame feed field fierce fire flame flocks flood flower fruit galbanum gale genial GEORGICS glade glow golden grove heaven herds hive Jesuits Jove labour land leave light limbs load lonely mead native night nymphs o'er o'erflowing olive pale Paraguay plain plants plough poison'd pomp purple Queen race rage realm rear reign repose rich rill rise roll'd round rush Scorpius shade shelter'd shore showers sire soil spread spring steeds streams swain swarms sweets swell tempests thee thou thyme tide Tmolus toil vernal vines Virgil virgin waste wave wild WILLIAM SOTHEBY wind wing'd wings wood wound yield young youth