Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, & Entertaining, in Poetry ... Being Similar in Design to Extracts in Prose, Volums 1-2Rivingtons, 1791 - 944 pàgines |
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... nature can fuggeft , and delicate enough to relish the " moft beautiful ; that is capable of entering into all thofe fubtle " graces , and all that divine elegance , the enjoyment of which is to be " felt only , and not expreffed . " 66 ...
... nature can fuggeft , and delicate enough to relish the " moft beautiful ; that is capable of entering into all thofe fubtle " graces , and all that divine elegance , the enjoyment of which is to be " felt only , and not expreffed . " 66 ...
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... Nature lies mantled in a wat'ry robe , And fhoreles billows revel round the globe : O'er higheft hills the higher furges rite , Mix with the clouds , and meet the fluid fkics . Nature , profufely good , with blifs o'erflows , And ftill ...
... Nature lies mantled in a wat'ry robe , And fhoreles billows revel round the globe : O'er higheft hills the higher furges rite , Mix with the clouds , and meet the fluid fkics . Nature , profufely good , with blifs o'erflows , And ftill ...
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... nature with a kind embrace . The azure kingdoms of the deep below , Thy pow'r , thy witdom , and thy goodness show : Here multitudes of various beings ftray , Crowd the profound , or on the furface play : Tal navies here the r doubtful ...
... nature with a kind embrace . The azure kingdoms of the deep below , Thy pow'r , thy witdom , and thy goodness show : Here multitudes of various beings ftray , Crowd the profound , or on the furface play : Tal navies here the r doubtful ...
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... Nature never made , And God abhorr'd ; with violence rude to break The thread of life ere half its length was run , And rob a wretched brother of his being . With joy Ambition faw , and foon improv'd The execrable deed . Twas not enough ...
... Nature never made , And God abhorr'd ; with violence rude to break The thread of life ere half its length was run , And rob a wretched brother of his being . With joy Ambition faw , and foon improv'd The execrable deed . Twas not enough ...
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... nature groans Beneath a vaffalage fo vile and cruel , And its vaft body bleeds through ev'ry vein . What havock haft thou made , foul monfter , Sin ! Greatest and firft of ills ! the fruitful parent Of woes of all dimensions ! but for ...
... nature groans Beneath a vaffalage fo vile and cruel , And its vaft body bleeds through ev'ry vein . What havock haft thou made , foul monfter , Sin ! Greatest and firft of ills ! the fruitful parent Of woes of all dimensions ! but for ...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volum 1 Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1791 |
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