The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... Heaven : Who sees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great ...
... Heaven : Who sees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great ...
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... Heaven's ambrosial flowers . Where is the bard whose soul can now Its high presuming hopes avow ? Where he who thinks , with rapture blind , This hallowed work for him designed ? ANTISTROPHE High on some cliff , to Heaven up - piled ...
... Heaven's ambrosial flowers . Where is the bard whose soul can now Its high presuming hopes avow ? Where he who thinks , with rapture blind , This hallowed work for him designed ? ANTISTROPHE High on some cliff , to Heaven up - piled ...
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... Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint , and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild , seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre . 120 96. weel - hained kebbuck , fell : well - preserved , flavorful cheese . 99 ...
... Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint , and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild , seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre . 120 96. weel - hained kebbuck , fell : well - preserved , flavorful cheese . 99 ...
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