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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... less desire To found this nether empire , which might rise By policy , and long process of time , In emulation opposite to Heaven . Which when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom Satan except , none higher sat , with grave Aspéct he rose ...
... less desire To found this nether empire , which might rise By policy , and long process of time , In emulation opposite to Heaven . Which when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom Satan except , none higher sat , with grave Aspéct he rose ...
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... less Choice in our suffrage ; for , on whom we send , The weight of all and our last hope relies . " This said , he sat ; and expectation held His look suspense , awaiting who appear'd To second , or oppose , or undertake The perilous ...
... less Choice in our suffrage ; for , on whom we send , The weight of all and our last hope relies . " This said , he sat ; and expectation held His look suspense , awaiting who appear'd To second , or oppose , or undertake The perilous ...
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... less when spirits immortal sing ? ) Suspended Hell , and took with ravishment The thronging audience . In discourse more sweet ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense , ) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd , In thoughts more ...
... less when spirits immortal sing ? ) Suspended Hell , and took with ravishment The thronging audience . In discourse more sweet ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense , ) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd , In thoughts more ...
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... less peal'd With noises loud and ruinous , ( to compare Great things with small , ) than when Bellona storms , With all her battering engines bent to rase Some capital city ; or less than if this frame Of Heaven were falling , and these ...
... less peal'd With noises loud and ruinous , ( to compare Great things with small , ) than when Bellona storms , With all her battering engines bent to rase Some capital city ; or less than if this frame Of Heaven were falling , and these ...
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... less , and with less hostile din , That Satan with less toil , and now with ease Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light , And , like a weather - beaten vessel , holds Gladly the port through shrouds and tackle torn ; Or in the ...
... less , and with less hostile din , That Satan with less toil , and now with ease Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light , And , like a weather - beaten vessel , holds Gladly the port through shrouds and tackle torn ; Or in the ...
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