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Page 42
... dreadful darts , With rapid glide , along the leaning line : And , fixing in the wretch his cruel fangs , 270 Strikes backward grimly pleas'd : the fluttering wing , And fhriller found declare extreme diflrefs , And ask the helping ...
... dreadful darts , With rapid glide , along the leaning line : And , fixing in the wretch his cruel fangs , 270 Strikes backward grimly pleas'd : the fluttering wing , And fhriller found declare extreme diflrefs , And ask the helping ...
Page 45
... dreadful thunder hence 425 Rides o'er the waves fublime , and now , even now , Impending bangs o'er Gallia's humbled coaft ; Hence rules the circling deep , and awes the world . ' fis raging noon ; and , vertical , the Sun Darts on the ...
... dreadful thunder hence 425 Rides o'er the waves fublime , and now , even now , Impending bangs o'er Gallia's humbled coaft ; Hence rules the circling deep , and awes the world . ' fis raging noon ; and , vertical , the Sun Darts on the ...
Page 51
... dreadful beauty crown'd And barbarous wealth , that fee , each circling year , ba Returning Juns and double fafons pass : Rocks rich in gems , and mountains big with mines , That on the high equator ridgy rife , Whence many a bursting ...
... dreadful beauty crown'd And barbarous wealth , that fee , each circling year , ba Returning Juns and double fafons pass : Rocks rich in gems , and mountains big with mines , That on the high equator ridgy rife , Whence many a bursting ...
Page 60
... dreadful night , 991 Inceffant lab'ring round the ftormy Cape ; By bold ambition led , and bolder thirst Of gold . For then from ancient gloom emerg'd The rifing world of trade : the Genius , then , Of Navigation , that , in hopeless ...
... dreadful night , 991 Inceffant lab'ring round the ftormy Cape ; By bold ambition led , and bolder thirst Of gold . For then from ancient gloom emerg'd The rifing world of trade : the Genius , then , Of Navigation , that , in hopeless ...
Page 62
... dreadful policy arraigns , Inhuman , and unwife . The fullen door , Yet uninfected , on its cautious hinge Fearing to turn , abhors fociety : Dependants , friends , relations , Love himself , Savag'd by woe , forge : the tender tie ...
... dreadful policy arraigns , Inhuman , and unwife . The fullen door , Yet uninfected , on its cautious hinge Fearing to turn , abhors fociety : Dependants , friends , relations , Love himself , Savag'd by woe , forge : the tender tie ...
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