The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 33Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1823 - English poetry |
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... ancient as well as modern literature ; witness his Leonidas , Medea , Boadicea , and London : for having formed his own character upon the best models of the Greek writers , he lived as if he had been bred a disciple of Socrates , or ...
... ancient as well as modern literature ; witness his Leonidas , Medea , Boadicea , and London : for having formed his own character upon the best models of the Greek writers , he lived as if he had been bred a disciple of Socrates , or ...
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... ancient seats Recoil affrighted : from the darksome main Earth raises smiling , as new - born , her head , And with fresh charms her lovely face arrays . So his extensive thought accomplish'd first The mighty task to drive the ...
... ancient seats Recoil affrighted : from the darksome main Earth raises smiling , as new - born , her head , And with fresh charms her lovely face arrays . So his extensive thought accomplish'd first The mighty task to drive the ...
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... ancient fame , immortal Plato's self , The Stagyrite , and Syracusan sage , From black obscurity's abyss to raise , ( Drooping and mourning o'er thy wondrous works ) With vain inquiry sought . Like meteors these In their dark age bright ...
... ancient fame , immortal Plato's self , The Stagyrite , and Syracusan sage , From black obscurity's abyss to raise , ( Drooping and mourning o'er thy wondrous works ) With vain inquiry sought . Like meteors these In their dark age bright ...
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Abrocomes Agis Alpheus Amphistreus Anaxander ancient Artuchus Asia's awhile band Barbarians bard battle battle of Dettingen Behold Beneath blast bleeds blow bosom brave breast brow buckler chief clouds darts death Demaratus Demophilus Dieneces Diomedon Dithyrambus dreadful dreary earth eternal Eurus Ev'n falchion fame fate floods forehead FRIEND glory goddess graces Grecian Greece groan hail hath head heart heaven hero honours horrors Hydarnes Hyperanthes immortal javelin Jaxartes labour Laconia's king lance laurels Leonidas limbs mace Medon Megistias Muse Mycon Newton night numbers o'er Oïleus pass'd Persian Phocian Phraortes POET Polydorus ponderous praise pride rage rear'd renown resistless rock round Sacian sacred hand sage satraps scatter'd seat shade shalt shield shore skies smiles Sosarmes soul Spartan spear splendours spread streams stretch'd swift sword terror thee Thermopyla Thespia's thou thought throne tide toil trembling valour virtue waves wind wounds Xerxes XXXIII yields