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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... labour . Pointless was his spear , His buckler cleft . As , overworn by storms , A vessel steers to some protecting bay ; Then , soon as timely gales inviting curl The azure floods , to Neptune shows again Her masts , apparell'd fresh ...
... labour . Pointless was his spear , His buckler cleft . As , overworn by storms , A vessel steers to some protecting bay ; Then , soon as timely gales inviting curl The azure floods , to Neptune shows again Her masts , apparell'd fresh ...
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... laurels round his glorious head ; His virtue more to labour fate forbids , And lays him now in honourable rest , To seal his country's liberty by death . MISCELLANIES . MISCELLANIES . ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON . To 282 Book 12 . LEONIDAS .
... laurels round his glorious head ; His virtue more to labour fate forbids , And lays him now in honourable rest , To seal his country's liberty by death . MISCELLANIES . MISCELLANIES . ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON . To 282 Book 12 . LEONIDAS .
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... laurels round his glorious head ; His virtue more to labour fate forbids , And lays him now in honourable rest , To seal his country's liberty by death . MISCELLANIES . MISCELLANIES . ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON . To 282 Book 12 . LEONIDAS .
... laurels round his glorious head ; His virtue more to labour fate forbids , And lays him now in honourable rest , To seal his country's liberty by death . MISCELLANIES . MISCELLANIES . ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON . To 282 Book 12 . LEONIDAS .
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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