Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Հատոր 1"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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... And harshly deal like an ill borrower And show me simples of a thousand
names , With that which you receiv'd on other terms ; Telling their strange and
vigorous faculties : Scorning the unexempt condition , Amongst the rest a small
unsightly ...
... And harshly deal like an ill borrower And show me simples of a thousand
names , With that which you receiv'd on other terms ; Telling their strange and
vigorous faculties : Scorning the unexempt condition , Amongst the rest a small
unsightly ...
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Hail horrours , hail There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; Infernal world , and
thou , profoundest Hell , And , re - assembling our afflicted powers , Receive thy
new possessor , one who brings Consult how we may henceforth most offend A ...
Hail horrours , hail There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; Infernal world , and
thou , profoundest Hell , And , re - assembling our afflicted powers , Receive thy
new possessor , one who brings Consult how we may henceforth most offend A ...
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Thus far these beyond For this infernal pit shall never hold Compare of mortal
prowess , yet obscrv'd Celestial spirits in bondage , nor the abyss Their dread
commander : he , above the rest Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts
In ...
Thus far these beyond For this infernal pit shall never hold Compare of mortal
prowess , yet obscrv'd Celestial spirits in bondage , nor the abyss Their dread
commander : he , above the rest Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts
In ...
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... and laughs the while My bowels , their repast ; then bursting forth At thee
ordain'd his drudge , to execute Afresh with conscious terrours vex me round ,
Whate'er his wrath , which he calls justice , bids ; That rest or intermission none I
find .
... and laughs the while My bowels , their repast ; then bursting forth At thee
ordain'd his drudge , to execute Afresh with conscious terrours vex me round ,
Whate'er his wrath , which he calls justice , bids ; That rest or intermission none I
find .
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My vanquisher , spoil'd of his vaunted spoil ; Some I have chosen of peculiar
grace , Death his death's wound shall then receive , and Elect above the rest ; so
is my will : stoop The rest shall hear me call , and oft be warn'd Inglorious , of his ...
My vanquisher , spoil'd of his vaunted spoil ; Some I have chosen of peculiar
grace , Death his death's wound shall then receive , and Elect above the rest ; so
is my will : stoop The rest shall hear me call , and oft be warn'd Inglorious , of his ...
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| Վերնագիր | Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Հատոր 1 Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, John Aikin |
| Editor | John Aikin |
| Աջակցող | John Aikin |
| Հրատարակիչ | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820 |
| Original from | Կալիֆորնիայի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 24 Հոկտեմբեր 2007 |
| Length | 807 էջ |
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