The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 6John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - 1157 sivua |
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... force of our lan- guage was not yet felt : the verfe that was smooth , was commonly feeble . If Cowley had fome- times a finifhed line , he had it by chance . Dryden knew how to choose the flowing and the fo- norous words ; to vary the ...
... force of our lan- guage was not yet felt : the verfe that was smooth , was commonly feeble . If Cowley had fome- times a finifhed line , he had it by chance . Dryden knew how to choose the flowing and the fo- norous words ; to vary the ...
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... force employs : His weak ones deep into his rear he bore Remote from guns , as fick men from the noise . XCII . [ foe : His fiery cannon did their passage guide , And following fmoke obfcur'd them from the Thus Ifrael , fafe from the ...
... force employs : His weak ones deep into his rear he bore Remote from guns , as fick men from the noise . XCII . [ foe : His fiery cannon did their passage guide , And following fmoke obfcur'd them from the Thus Ifrael , fafe from the ...
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... forces in , and thus replies : Th ' eternal God , fupremely good and wife , Imparts not thefe prodigious gifts in ... force becomes the diadem . ' Tis true he grants the people all they crave ; And more perhaps than fubjects ought to ...
... forces in , and thus replies : Th ' eternal God , fupremely good and wife , Imparts not thefe prodigious gifts in ... force becomes the diadem . ' Tis true he grants the people all they crave ; And more perhaps than fubjects ought to ...
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... force , That coronation oaths are things of coutfe ! Maintains the multitude can never err ; And fets the people in the papal chair . The reafon ' s obvious ; intereft never lies ; The most have ftill their intereft in their eyes ; The ...
... force , That coronation oaths are things of coutfe ! Maintains the multitude can never err ; And fets the people in the papal chair . The reafon ' s obvious ; intereft never lies ; The most have ftill their intereft in their eyes ; The ...
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... force ; Which though not actual , yet all eyes may fee ' Tis working in th ' immediate power to be ; For from pretended grievances they rife , Firft to dislike , and after to defpife . Then cyclop - like in human fiefh to deal , Chop up ...
... force ; Which though not actual , yet all eyes may fee ' Tis working in th ' immediate power to be ; For from pretended grievances they rife , Firft to dislike , and after to defpife . Then cyclop - like in human fiefh to deal , Chop up ...
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