Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, & Entertaining, in Poetry ... Being Similar in Design to Extracts in Prose, Volums 1-2Rivingtons, 1791 - 944 pàgines |
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Pàgina 22
... land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumfcrib'd alone [ fin'd ; Their growing virtues , but their crimes con- Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on ...
... land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumfcrib'd alone [ fin'd ; Their growing virtues , but their crimes con- Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on ...
Pàgina 31
... lands us fafe Or the long with ' d - for fhore . Prodigious change ! Our bane turn'd to a bleifing ! Death difarm'd ... land , or in the fpacious fea , Bit must give back its long - committed duft violate and faithfully fhall thefe Make ...
... lands us fafe Or the long with ' d - for fhore . Prodigious change ! Our bane turn'd to a bleifing ! Death difarm'd ... land , or in the fpacious fea , Bit must give back its long - committed duft violate and faithfully fhall thefe Make ...
Pàgina 42
... land declare , That felt thy juftice , awfully fevere ! How did thy frown benight the fhadow'd land Nature revers'd , how own thy high command ! When jarring elements their ufe forgot , And the fun felt thy overcafting blot ! When earth ...
... land declare , That felt thy juftice , awfully fevere ! How did thy frown benight the fhadow'd land Nature revers'd , how own thy high command ! When jarring elements their ufe forgot , And the fun felt thy overcafting blot ! When earth ...
Pàgina 48
... land Where all things are forgot ? -Ah , no ! the day Will come , when Virtue from the cloud fhall burft , That long obfcur'd her beams ; when Sin fhall fly Back to her native Hell ; there fink eclips'd In penal darkness ; where nor ...
... land Where all things are forgot ? -Ah , no ! the day Will come , when Virtue from the cloud fhall burft , That long obfcur'd her beams ; when Sin fhall fly Back to her native Hell ; there fink eclips'd In penal darkness ; where nor ...
Pàgina 50
... land : Jehovah reigns , unbounded and alone , And all creation hangs beneath his throne : He reigns alone ; let no inferior nature Ufurp or fhare the throne of the Creator . He faw the ftruggling beams of infant light Shoot thro ' the ...
... land : Jehovah reigns , unbounded and alone , And all creation hangs beneath his throne : He reigns alone ; let no inferior nature Ufurp or fhare the throne of the Creator . He faw the ftruggling beams of infant light Shoot thro ' the ...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volum 1 Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1791 |
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