Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical Notices |
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... hath turned , Neptune in the waters burned ; Hell hath felt a greater heat : Jove himself forsook his seat : From the centre , to the sky , Are his trophies reared high . SECOND GRACE . Wings he hath , which though ye clip , He will ...
... hath turned , Neptune in the waters burned ; Hell hath felt a greater heat : Jove himself forsook his seat : From the centre , to the sky , Are his trophies reared high . SECOND GRACE . Wings he hath , which though ye clip , He will ...
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... hath thresh'd the corn , That ten day - laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend , And , stretch'd out all the chimney's length , Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop - full out of doors he flings , Ere ...
... hath thresh'd the corn , That ten day - laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend , And , stretch'd out all the chimney's length , Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop - full out of doors he flings , Ere ...
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... hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a true consent With planet , or with element . Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall ...
... hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a true consent With planet , or with element . Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall ...
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... hath reft " ( quoth he ) " my deares pledge ? " Last came , and last did go , The pilot of the Galilean lake ; 110 Two massy keys he bore of metals twain , ( The golden opes , the iron shuts amain , ) He shook his miter'd locks , and ...
... hath reft " ( quoth he ) " my deares pledge ? " Last came , and last did go , The pilot of the Galilean lake ; 110 Two massy keys he bore of metals twain , ( The golden opes , the iron shuts amain , ) He shook his miter'd locks , and ...
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... hath night to do with sleep ? Night hath better sweets to prove , Venus now wakes , and wakens Love . Come , let us our rites begin ; " Tis only daylight that makes sin , Which these dun shades will ne'er report : - Hail , goddess of ...
... hath night to do with sleep ? Night hath better sweets to prove , Venus now wakes , and wakens Love . Come , let us our rites begin ; " Tis only daylight that makes sin , Which these dun shades will ne'er report : - Hail , goddess of ...
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