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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Page 49
... round Still ending , still renewing , through mid Heaven , With borrow'd light her countenance triform Hence fills and empties to enlighten th ' Earth , And in her pale dominion checks the night . That spot , to which I point , is ...
... round Still ending , still renewing , through mid Heaven , With borrow'd light her countenance triform Hence fills and empties to enlighten th ' Earth , And in her pale dominion checks the night . That spot , to which I point , is ...
Page 67
... round , Cherubic waving fires : on the other part , Satan with his rebellious disappear'd , Far in the dark dislodg'd ; and , void of rest , His potentates to council call'd by night ; And in the midst thus undismay'd began . " O now in ...
... round , Cherubic waving fires : on the other part , Satan with his rebellious disappear'd , Far in the dark dislodg'd ; and , void of rest , His potentates to council call'd by night ; And in the midst thus undismay'd began . " O now in ...
Page 71
... round , And solitude ; yet not alone , while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly , or when morn Purples the east : still govern thou my song , Urania , and fit audience find , though few . But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of ...
... round , And solitude ; yet not alone , while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly , or when morn Purples the east : still govern thou my song , Urania , and fit audience find , though few . But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of ...
Page 72
... Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said , Thus far extend , thus far thy bounds , This be thy just circumference , O World ! ' Thus God the Heaven created , thus the Earth , Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound ...
... Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said , Thus far extend , thus far thy bounds , This be thy just circumference , O World ! ' Thus God the Heaven created , thus the Earth , Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound ...
Page 81
... round : When Satan , who late fled before the threats Of Gabriel out of Eden , now improv'd In meditated fraud and malice , bent On Man's destruction , maugre what might hap Of heavier on himself , fearless return'd . By night he fled ...
... round : When Satan , who late fled before the threats Of Gabriel out of Eden , now improv'd In meditated fraud and malice , bent On Man's destruction , maugre what might hap Of heavier on himself , fearless return'd . By night he fled ...
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