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... simul ignis : ut his exordia primis Omnia , et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis . Ver . 62. Incipiant sylvæ cùm primùm surgere Jamque novum ut terræ stupeant lucescere solem . 43 35 60 Yet was the Court a solitary waste ; Twelve lords ...
... simul ignis : ut his exordia primis Omnia , et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis . Ver . 62. Incipiant sylvæ cùm primùm surgere Jamque novum ut terræ stupeant lucescere solem . 43 35 60 Yet was the Court a solitary waste ; Twelve lords ...
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| Title | The Rolliad, in Two Parts; Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and Miscellanies: With Criticisms and Illustrations |
| Contributor | Joseph Richardson |
| Edition | 22, revised |
| Publisher | J. Ridgway, 1812 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 May 2007 |
| Length | 535 pages |
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