The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... sprite , Whose grim aspect sets every joint a shaking ; What terrour ' t is ! but she , in worser taking , From sleep disturbed , heedfully doth view The sight which makes supposed terrour true . Wrapp'd and confounded in a thousand ...
... sprite , Whose grim aspect sets every joint a shaking ; What terrour ' t is ! but she , in worser taking , From sleep disturbed , heedfully doth view The sight which makes supposed terrour true . Wrapp'd and confounded in a thousand ...
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... sprite , and through her wounds doth fly Life's lasting date from cancel'd destiny . Stone - still , astonish'd with this deadly deed , Stood Collatine and all his lordly crew ; Till Lucrece ' father that beholds her bleed , Himself on ...
... sprite , and through her wounds doth fly Life's lasting date from cancel'd destiny . Stone - still , astonish'd with this deadly deed , Stood Collatine and all his lordly crew ; Till Lucrece ' father that beholds her bleed , Himself on ...
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... sprites ; So she , impatient her own faults to see , Turns from herself , and in strange things delights . For this few know themselves : for merchants broke View their estate with discontent and pain , And seas are troubled , when they ...
... sprites ; So she , impatient her own faults to see , Turns from herself , and in strange things delights . For this few know themselves : for merchants broke View their estate with discontent and pain , And seas are troubled , when they ...
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... sprites Oft skipp'd into our chamber those sweet nights , And kiss'd and dandled on thy father's knee , Were brib'd next day ; to tell what they did see : The grim eight foot high iron - bound serving - man , That oft names God in oaths ...
... sprites Oft skipp'd into our chamber those sweet nights , And kiss'd and dandled on thy father's knee , Were brib'd next day ; to tell what they did see : The grim eight foot high iron - bound serving - man , That oft names God in oaths ...
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... sprite ; Those set our hairs , but these our flesh upright . License my roving hands , and let them go Before , behind , between , above , below . O my America ! my Newfoundland ! My kingdom's safest when with one man man'd . My mine of ...
... sprite ; Those set our hairs , but these our flesh upright . License my roving hands , and let them go Before , behind , between , above , below . O my America ! my Newfoundland ! My kingdom's safest when with one man man'd . My mine of ...
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