A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Volume 5Robert Dodsley |
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... rife , Where oft thy votary shall be found ; What time pale Autumn lulls the skies , And fickening verdure fades around . Ye bufy race , ye factious train , That haunt Ambition's guilty shrine No more perplex the world in vain , But ...
... rife , Where oft thy votary shall be found ; What time pale Autumn lulls the skies , And fickening verdure fades around . Ye bufy race , ye factious train , That haunt Ambition's guilty shrine No more perplex the world in vain , But ...
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... rife , And glittering from the circling wood , With conftant beauty feed my eyes , As he the poor with conftant food . VIII . Each pompous work , proud Bath ! I fhare That decks thy hills . - Well - pleas'd I fee Thy rifing cirque ...
... rife , And glittering from the circling wood , With conftant beauty feed my eyes , As he the poor with conftant food . VIII . Each pompous work , proud Bath ! I fhare That decks thy hills . - Well - pleas'd I fee Thy rifing cirque ...
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... rife . Again I'll listen to your grave debates , I'll think I hear your various maxims told , Your numbers , leaders , policies , and ftates , Your limits fettled , and your tribes enroll'd , I'll think I hear you tell of diftant lands ...
... rife . Again I'll listen to your grave debates , I'll think I hear your various maxims told , Your numbers , leaders , policies , and ftates , Your limits fettled , and your tribes enroll'd , I'll think I hear you tell of diftant lands ...
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... rife , And catch their dewy nectar from the skies ; At his command gush out thy crystal rills , To cure the direful trajn of human ills . On all alike their influence freely shed , As the bright orb that gilds thy mountain's head . The ...
... rife , And catch their dewy nectar from the skies ; At his command gush out thy crystal rills , To cure the direful trajn of human ills . On all alike their influence freely shed , As the bright orb that gilds thy mountain's head . The ...
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... his magic colours fpreads , Rife tower'd towns , rough rocks , and flow'ry meads : What leagues between thofe azure mountains lie , ( Whofe lefs'ning tops invade the purple sky ) . An And this old oak , that fhades this hollow way [ 94 ]
... his magic colours fpreads , Rife tower'd towns , rough rocks , and flow'ry meads : What leagues between thofe azure mountains lie , ( Whofe lefs'ning tops invade the purple sky ) . An And this old oak , that fhades this hollow way [ 94 ]
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