Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 4Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... fear our English poetry , That long has flourish'd should decay in thee , Did not the Muses ' other hope appear ! Harmonious Congreve ! and forbid our fear ; Congreve ! whose fancy's unexhausted store Has given already much , and ...
... fear our English poetry , That long has flourish'd should decay in thee , Did not the Muses ' other hope appear ! Harmonious Congreve ! and forbid our fear ; Congreve ! whose fancy's unexhausted store Has given already much , and ...
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... fear , Which humble Holland must dissemble here . Spain to your gift alone her Indies owes ; For what the powerful takes not he bestows : And France , that did an exile's presence fear , May justly apprehend you still too near . At home ...
... fear , Which humble Holland must dissemble here . Spain to your gift alone her Indies owes ; For what the powerful takes not he bestows : And France , that did an exile's presence fear , May justly apprehend you still too near . At home ...
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... fear a dangerous war pursues , Which without rashness he began before . As honour made him first the danger choose ... fears ; To make slow fights , and victories but vain , But war , severely , like itself , appears . Diffusive of ...
... fear a dangerous war pursues , Which without rashness he began before . As honour made him first the danger choose ... fears ; To make slow fights , and victories but vain , But war , severely , like itself , appears . Diffusive of ...
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... fear : Their passions double with the cannons ' roar , And with warm wishes each man combats there . Ply'd thick and close as when the fight begun , Their huge unwieldy navy wastes away : So sicken waning moons too near the sun , And ...
... fear : Their passions double with the cannons ' roar , And with warm wishes each man combats there . Ply'd thick and close as when the fight begun , Their huge unwieldy navy wastes away : So sicken waning moons too near the sun , And ...
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... fear , And in the dark men justle as they meet . So weary bees in little cells repose , But if night - robbers lift the well - stored hive , A humming through their waxen city grows , And out upon each other's wings they drive . Now ...
... fear , And in the dark men justle as they meet . So weary bees in little cells repose , But if night - robbers lift the well - stored hive , A humming through their waxen city grows , And out upon each other's wings they drive . Now ...
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