Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 páginas "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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... wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home , They had their name thence ; coarse complexions , And cheeks of sorry grain , will serve to ply The sampler , and to tease the huswife's wool . What need a vermeil ...
... wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home , They had their name thence ; coarse complexions , And cheeks of sorry grain , will serve to ply The sampler , and to tease the huswife's wool . What need a vermeil ...
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... wonder , fall'n such a pernicious highth . " He scarce had ceas'd when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield , Ethereal temper , massy , large and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on ...
... wonder , fall'n such a pernicious highth . " He scarce had ceas'd when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield , Ethereal temper , massy , large and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on ...
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... wonder. To execute fierce vengeance on his foes , Not so on Man : him , through their malice fall'n , Father of mercy and grace , thou didst not doom So strictly , but much more to pity incline : No sooner did thy dear and only Son ...
... wonder. To execute fierce vengeance on his foes , Not so on Man : him , through their malice fall'n , Father of mercy and grace , thou didst not doom So strictly , but much more to pity incline : No sooner did thy dear and only Son ...
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... wonder then if fields and regions here So wide the opening seem'd , where bounds were set Breathe forth elixir pure , and rivers run To darkness , such as bound the ocean wave . Satan from hence , now on the lower stair , That scal'd by ...
... wonder then if fields and regions here So wide the opening seem'd , where bounds were set Breathe forth elixir pure , and rivers run To darkness , such as bound the ocean wave . Satan from hence , now on the lower stair , That scal'd by ...
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... wonder now he views , To all delight of human sense expos'd , In narrow room , Nature's whole wealth , yea more , A Heaven on Earth : for blissful Paradise Of God the garden was , by him in the east Of Eden planted : Eden stretch'd her ...
... wonder now he views , To all delight of human sense expos'd , In narrow room , Nature's whole wealth , yea more , A Heaven on Earth : for blissful Paradise Of God the garden was , by him in the east Of Eden planted : Eden stretch'd her ...
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