The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 54R. Griffiths, 1776 - Books |
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... with all the wealth fond hope could crave , Soon I beheld that wealth beneath the wave Forever loft ; - My life like Judah's heaven - doom'd king of yore By miracle prolong'd On the banks of the Mehon , he wrote his beautiful paraphrafe ...
... with all the wealth fond hope could crave , Soon I beheld that wealth beneath the wave Forever loft ; - My life like Judah's heaven - doom'd king of yore By miracle prolong'd On the banks of the Mehon , he wrote his beautiful paraphrafe ...
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