The Seasons1779 - 144 pages |
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Page 11
... Death , rapine , carnage , furfeit , and difeafe ; The lord , and not the tyrant of the world . The first fresh dawn then wak'd the gladdened Of uncerrupted man , nor blufh'd to fee The fluggard fleep beneath its facred beam : For their ...
... Death , rapine , carnage , furfeit , and difeafe ; The lord , and not the tyrant of the world . The first fresh dawn then wak'd the gladdened Of uncerrupted man , nor blufh'd to fee The fluggard fleep beneath its facred beam : For their ...
Page 13
... 'd deferves to bleed : but you , ye flocks , What have you done ; ye peaceful people , what , To merit death ? you , who have given us milk 360 In In luscious ftreams , and lent us your own coat SPRING . 136 SPRING Page SUMMER.
... 'd deferves to bleed : but you , ye flocks , What have you done ; ye peaceful people , what , To merit death ? you , who have given us milk 360 In In luscious ftreams , and lent us your own coat SPRING . 136 SPRING Page SUMMER.
Page 15
... death , With fullen plunge . At once he darts along , Deep ftruck , and runs out all the lengthen'd line ; Then feeks the farthest ooze , the sheltering weed , 43 * The cavern'd bank , his old fecure abode ; And flies aloft , and ...
... death , With fullen plunge . At once he darts along , Deep ftruck , and runs out all the lengthen'd line ; Then feeks the farthest ooze , the sheltering weed , 43 * The cavern'd bank , his old fecure abode ; And flies aloft , and ...
Page 29
... death : And itll , falfe warbling in his cheated ear , Her fyren voice , enchanting , ' draws him on To guileful thores , and meads of fatal joy . Even prefent , in the very lap of love Inglorious laid ; while mufic flows around ...
... death : And itll , falfe warbling in his cheated ear , Her fyren voice , enchanting , ' draws him on To guileful thores , and meads of fatal joy . Even prefent , in the very lap of love Inglorious laid ; while mufic flows around ...
Page 42
... death ; where gloomily retir'd , The villain fpider lives , cunning and fierce , M.xture abhorr'd ! Amid a mangled heap Of carcaffes , in eager watch he fits , O'erlooking all his waving fnares around . Near the dire cell the dreadlefs ...
... death ; where gloomily retir'd , The villain fpider lives , cunning and fierce , M.xture abhorr'd ! Amid a mangled heap Of carcaffes , in eager watch he fits , O'erlooking all his waving fnares around . Near the dire cell the dreadlefs ...
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