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... o'er the wide campaign , Inbibes the filver furge , with heat oppreft , To cool the fever of his glowing breast . Here rifing boughs adorn'd with fummer's pride , Project their waving umbrage o'er the tide ; While , gently perching on ...
... o'er the wide campaign , Inbibes the filver furge , with heat oppreft , To cool the fever of his glowing breast . Here rifing boughs adorn'd with fummer's pride , Project their waving umbrage o'er the tide ; While , gently perching on ...
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... o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But ufelefs lances into scythes thall bend , And the broad faulchion in a plow - hare end . Then palaces fhall rife ; the joyful Son Shall finish what his thort - liv'd Sire begun ; Their ...
... o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But ufelefs lances into scythes thall bend , And the broad faulchion in a plow - hare end . Then palaces fhall rife ; the joyful Son Shall finish what his thort - liv'd Sire begun ; Their ...
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... o'er : Their books from wildom widely ftray , Or point , at beft , the longest way . I'll feek a readier path , and go Where wisdom's furely taught below . How deep yon azure dies the sky ! Where orbs of gold unnumber'd lie ; While thro ...
... o'er : Their books from wildom widely ftray , Or point , at beft , the longest way . I'll feek a readier path , and go Where wisdom's furely taught below . How deep yon azure dies the sky ! Where orbs of gold unnumber'd lie ; While thro ...
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... o'er his head . At life's meridian point arriv'd , he stood , And looking round faw all the valles fill'd With nations from his loins ; full - well content To leave his race thus fcatter'd o'er the Earth , Along the gentle flope of ...
... o'er his head . At life's meridian point arriv'd , he stood , And looking round faw all the valles fill'd With nations from his loins ; full - well content To leave his race thus fcatter'd o'er the Earth , Along the gentle flope of ...
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... o'er the long flat itones ( With nettles fkirted , and with mofs o'er- grown ) That tell in homely phrase who lie below ; Sudden he starts ! and hears , or thinks he hears , The found of fomething purring at his heels : Full fat he ...
... o'er the long flat itones ( With nettles fkirted , and with mofs o'er- grown ) That tell in homely phrase who lie below ; Sudden he starts ! and hears , or thinks he hears , The found of fomething purring at his heels : Full fat he ...
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