Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 էջ "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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... darkness here Hatching vain empires . " Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his devilish counsel , first devis'd By Satan , and in ... dark unbottom'd infinite abyss , And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way , or spread his aery ...
... darkness here Hatching vain empires . " Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his devilish counsel , first devis'd By Satan , and in ... dark unbottom'd infinite abyss , And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way , or spread his aery ...
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... dark each In other's countenance read his own dismay Astonish'd : none among the choice and prime Of those Heaven - warring champions could be found So hardy , as to proffer or accept , Alone , the dreadful voyage ; till at last Satan ...
... dark each In other's countenance read his own dismay Astonish'd : none among the choice and prime Of those Heaven - warring champions could be found So hardy , as to proffer or accept , Alone , the dreadful voyage ; till at last Satan ...
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... dark and wild , beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail , which on firm land Thaws not , but gathers heap , and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; or else deep snow and ice . A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata ...
... dark and wild , beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail , which on firm land Thaws not , but gathers heap , and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; or else deep snow and ice . A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata ...
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... dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants , that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so match'd they stood ; For never but once more was either like To meet so great a foe : and now great deeds Had been achiev'd ...
... dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants , that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so match'd they stood ; For never but once more was either like To meet so great a foe : and now great deeds Had been achiev'd ...
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... dark and dismal house of pain Both him and thee , and all the heavenly host Of spirits , that , in our just pretences arm'd , Fell with us from on high : from them I go This uncouth errand sole ; and one for all Myself expose , with ...
... dark and dismal house of pain Both him and thee , and all the heavenly host Of spirits , that , in our just pretences arm'd , Fell with us from on high : from them I go This uncouth errand sole ; and one for all Myself expose , with ...
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