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Page 107
... Rais'd from some pleasing dream of wealth and pow'r , Some pompous palace , or some blissful bower , Aghast you start , and scarce with aching sight Sustain th ' approaching fire's tremendous light ; Swift from pursuing horrors take ...
... Rais'd from some pleasing dream of wealth and pow'r , Some pompous palace , or some blissful bower , Aghast you start , and scarce with aching sight Sustain th ' approaching fire's tremendous light ; Swift from pursuing horrors take ...
Page 153
For I have perceived God's light about him both wax and fire . For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance , which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast . For God has blessed him in the variety of his ...
For I have perceived God's light about him both wax and fire . For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance , which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast . For God has blessed him in the variety of his ...
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Strike , tawdry slaves , and ye shall know Our gloom is fire . In vain your pomp , ye evil powers , Insults the land ; Wrongs , vengeance , and the Cause are ours , And God's right hand ! Madmen ! they trample into snakes The wormy clod ...
Strike , tawdry slaves , and ye shall know Our gloom is fire . In vain your pomp , ye evil powers , Insults the land ; Wrongs , vengeance , and the Cause are ours , And God's right hand ! Madmen ! they trample into snakes The wormy clod ...
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CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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