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... wide - imperial Rome , in the full height Of elegance and tafte . by Greece refin'd . In ancient 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 ancient 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 8
... wide dejected waste . For oft , engender'd by the hazy north , Myriads on myriads , infect armies waft 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 waft 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 dath'd the waves , in undulation vaft ; Tit , from the center to the ftreaming clouds , A thoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . The feafons fince , have , with feverer fway , Oppreis'd a broken world : The Winter keen 315 Shook ...
... Wide dath'd the waves , in undulation vaft ; Tit , from the center to the ftreaming clouds , A thoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . The feafons fince , have , with feverer fway , Oppreis'd a broken world : The Winter keen 315 Shook ...
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... wide , and wild ; Where undifguis'd by mimic Art , the fpreads 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 nations ...
... wide , and wild ; Where undifguis'd by mimic Art , the fpreads 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 nations ...
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... wide , Than , all alive , at once their joy o'erflows In mufic unconfin'd . Up - fprings the fark , Shrill voice , and loud , the meffenger of morn Ere yet the fhadows fly , he mounted fings Amid the dawning clouds , and from their ...
... wide , Than , all alive , at once their joy o'erflows In mufic unconfin'd . Up - fprings the fark , Shrill voice , and loud , the meffenger of morn Ere yet the fhadows fly , he mounted fings Amid the dawning clouds , and from their ...
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afcending amid beam beauty beneath blaft blifs bloom bofom breaft breath breeze chearful clouds courfe croud deep defcends earth ether exalts facred fafe fair fair brow fcarce fcene feas fecret feeks feem fenfe fhade fhine filent filk fimple fing firanger firft fkies flame fleep flocks flood fmiles fnow foaring focial foft fome fong fons foreft foul fpirit fpread froft ftand ftill ftorm ftream fuch fudden funk fwain fweep fweet fwelling gale gloom grace grove heart heaven hills immenfe Inceffant laft lefs loft luftre mingled mix'd mountains Mufe mufic Muſe Nature Nature's night o'er paffions peace plain pleafing rage rais'd refounding rife rocks round rous'd rural ſcene ſky Spring tempeft thee thefe theſe thine Thio thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro toil vaft vale virtue wafte wave whofe whoſe wide wild winds wing wintry woods