Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin "The object of this work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical poets, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with biographical and critical notices of their authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth" -- Page [i]. |
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... appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with mineral fury , aid ...
... appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with mineral fury , aid ...
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... appear'd A crew , who , under names of old renown , Osiris , Isis , Orus , and their train , With monstrous shapes and sorceries abus'd Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek Their wandering gods disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than ...
... appear'd A crew , who , under names of old renown , Osiris , Isis , Orus , and their train , With monstrous shapes and sorceries abus'd Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek Their wandering gods disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than ...
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... appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the Moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds ...
... appear'd Less than arch - angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the Moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds ...
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... appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me though just right , and the fix'd laws of Heaven , Did first create your leader ; next , free choice , With what besides , in ...
... appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me though just right , and the fix'd laws of Heaven , Did first create your leader ; next , free choice , With what besides , in ...
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... appears For happy though but ill , for ill not worst , If we procure not to ourselves more woe . ' 39 Thus Belial , with ... appear Of servile pomp . Hard liberty before the easy yoke Then most conspicuous , when great things of small ...
... appears For happy though but ill , for ill not worst , If we procure not to ourselves more woe . ' 39 Thus Belial , with ... appear Of servile pomp . Hard liberty before the easy yoke Then most conspicuous , when great things of small ...
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