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Page 10
... floods , and in a yellow mist , Far fmoaking o'er the interminable plain , In twinkling myriads lights the dewy gems . Moift , bright , and green , the landskip laughs around . Full fwell the woods ; their every mufic wakes , Mix'd in ...
... floods , and in a yellow mist , Far fmoaking o'er the interminable plain , In twinkling myriads lights the dewy gems . Moift , bright , and green , the landskip laughs around . Full fwell the woods ; their every mufic wakes , Mix'd in ...
Page 15
... flood They wanton rise , or urg'd by hunger leap , Then fix , with gentle twitch , the barbed hook : Some lightly toffing to the graffy bank , And to the fhelving fhore flow - dragging fome , With various hand proportion'd to their ...
... flood They wanton rise , or urg'd by hunger leap , Then fix , with gentle twitch , the barbed hook : Some lightly toffing to the graffy bank , And to the fhelving fhore flow - dragging fome , With various hand proportion'd to their ...
Page 30
... and fad , 1065 She with extended arms his aid implores ; But ftrives in vain : borne by th ' outrageous flood To distance down , he rides the ridgy wave , Or 5 Or whelm'd beneath the boiling eddy finks . Thefe 30 SPRING .
... and fad , 1065 She with extended arms his aid implores ; But ftrives in vain : borne by th ' outrageous flood To distance down , he rides the ridgy wave , Or 5 Or whelm'd beneath the boiling eddy finks . Thefe 30 SPRING .
Page 39
... flood , Softens at thy return . The defart joys Wildly , thro ' all his melancholy bounds . Rude ruins glitter ; and the briny deep , Seen from fome pointed promontory's top , Far to the blue horizon's utmost verge , Reftless , reflects ...
... flood , Softens at thy return . The defart joys Wildly , thro ' all his melancholy bounds . Rude ruins glitter ; and the briny deep , Seen from fome pointed promontory's top , Far to the blue horizon's utmost verge , Reftless , reflects ...
Page 44
... flood 375 Commit their woolly fides . And oft the fwain , On fome impatient feizing , hurls them in : Embolden'd thus , nor hefitating more , Faft , faft , they plunge amid the flathing waye , 380 And panting labour to the fartheft ...
... flood 375 Commit their woolly fides . And oft the fwain , On fome impatient feizing , hurls them in : Embolden'd thus , nor hefitating more , Faft , faft , they plunge amid the flathing waye , 380 And panting labour to the fartheft ...
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