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... wide - imperial ROME , in the full height Of elegance and tafte , by GREECE refin'd . In antient times ,, the facred plough employ'd The kings , and awful fathers of mankind : 55 And fome , with whom compar'd your infect - tribes 60 Are ...
... wide - imperial ROME , in the full height Of elegance and tafte , by GREECE refin'd . In antient times ,, the facred plough employ'd The kings , and awful fathers of mankind : 55 And fome , with whom compar'd your infect - tribes 60 Are ...
Page 7
... wide - dejected waste . For oft , engender'd by the hazy north , Myriads on myriads , infect armies warp Keen in the poifon'd breeze ; and wasteful eat , Thro ' buds and bark , into the blackened core , Their eager way . A feeble race ...
... wide - dejected waste . For oft , engender'd by the hazy north , Myriads on myriads , infect armies warp Keen in the poifon'd breeze ; and wasteful eat , Thro ' buds and bark , into the blackened core , Their eager way . A feeble race ...
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... wide air , and o'er the void of heaven 145 Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers diftent . At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise , Scarce ftaining ether ; but by swift degrees , In heaps on heaps , the doubling vapour fails ...
... wide air , and o'er the void of heaven 145 Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers diftent . At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise , Scarce ftaining ether ; but by swift degrees , In heaps on heaps , the doubling vapour fails ...
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... Wide dafh'd the waves , in undulation vaft ; Till , from the center to the ftreaming clouds , A fhoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . 315 THE Seafons fince have , with feverer fway , Opprefs'd a broken world : the Winter keen Shook ...
... Wide dafh'd the waves , in undulation vaft ; Till , from the center to the ftreaming clouds , A fhoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . 315 THE Seafons fince have , with feverer fway , Opprefs'd a broken world : the Winter keen Shook ...
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... wide , and wild ; Where , undifguis'd by mimic Art , she spreads Unbounded beauty to the roving eye . 505 Here their delicious task the fervent bees , In fwarming millions , tend : around , athwart , Thro ' the foft air , the bufy ...
... wide , and wild ; Where , undifguis'd by mimic Art , she spreads Unbounded beauty to the roving eye . 505 Here their delicious task the fervent bees , In fwarming millions , tend : around , athwart , Thro ' the foft air , the bufy ...
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