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... kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies , dispeopled air and floods , The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste , they storm'd the dens and caves ( For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves ) ...
... kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies , dispeopled air and floods , The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste , they storm'd the dens and caves ( For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves ) ...
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... kings first breath'd upon her winding shore , Or raise old warriors , whose ador'd remains In weeping vaults her hallow ... king the marble weeps , And , fast beside him , once - fear'd Edward sleeps : Whom not th ' extended Albion could ...
... kings first breath'd upon her winding shore , Or raise old warriors , whose ador'd remains In weeping vaults her hallow ... king the marble weeps , And , fast beside him , once - fear'd Edward sleeps : Whom not th ' extended Albion could ...
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... kings shall sue , and suppliant states be seen Once more to bend before a British queen . Thy trees , fair Windsor ! now shall leave their woods , And half thy forests rush into the floods ; Bear Britain's thunder , and her cross ...
... kings shall sue , and suppliant states be seen Once more to bend before a British queen . Thy trees , fair Windsor ! now shall leave their woods , And half thy forests rush into the floods ; Bear Britain's thunder , and her cross ...
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... kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold . Exil'd by thee from earth to deepest hell , In brazen bonds shall barbarous discord dwell : Gigantic pride , pale terror , gloomy care , And mad ambition , shall attend her there ...
... kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold . Exil'd by thee from earth to deepest hell , In brazen bonds shall barbarous discord dwell : Gigantic pride , pale terror , gloomy care , And mad ambition , shall attend her there ...
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... offend , And rise to faults true critics dare not mend . But though the ancients thus their rules invade ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or , if you must offend 52 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... offend , And rise to faults true critics dare not mend . But though the ancients thus their rules invade ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or , if you must offend 52 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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