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Page xxvii
... fair infant , a nephew , or rather niece of his , little unnecessary expense besides buying of books . dying of a cough ; and this being written in his Though he was of the victorious party , yet he was seventeenth year , as it is said ...
... fair infant , a nephew , or rather niece of his , little unnecessary expense besides buying of books . dying of a cough ; and this being written in his Though he was of the victorious party , yet he was seventeenth year , as it is said ...
Page xxxi
... fair ; as Heaven sublime ! At length our mighty Bard's victorious lays And baffled Spite , with hopeless anguish dumb , Fill the loud voice of universal praise ; Yields to renown the centuries to come ; Ambitious , catches at his ...
... fair ; as Heaven sublime ! At length our mighty Bard's victorious lays And baffled Spite , with hopeless anguish dumb , Fill the loud voice of universal praise ; Yields to renown the centuries to come ; Ambitious , catches at his ...
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... fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day , While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple ...
... fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day , While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple ...
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... fair In Heaven , when at the assembly , and in sight Of all the seraphim with thee combined In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King , All on a sudden miserable pain Surprised thee , dim thine eyes , and dizzy swam In darkness , while ...
... fair In Heaven , when at the assembly , and in sight Of all the seraphim with thee combined In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King , All on a sudden miserable pain Surprised thee , dim thine eyes , and dizzy swam In darkness , while ...
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... Fair angel , thy desire , which tends to know The works of God , thereby to glorify The great Workmaster , leads to no excess That reaches blame , but rather merits praise The more it seems excess , that led thee hither From thy ...
... Fair angel , thy desire , which tends to know The works of God , thereby to glorify The great Workmaster , leads to no excess That reaches blame , but rather merits praise The more it seems excess , that led thee hither From thy ...
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Page 10 - Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of God — B.