Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 4Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... Fortune to repent . These virtues Galba in a stranger sought , And Piso to adopted empire brought . How shall I then my doubtful thoughts express , That must his sufferings both regret and bless ! For when his early valour Heaven had ...
... Fortune to repent . These virtues Galba in a stranger sought , And Piso to adopted empire brought . How shall I then my doubtful thoughts express , That must his sufferings both regret and bless ! For when his early valour Heaven had ...
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... fortune , and the interposition of many rivals , who violently ravished and withheld you from him ; and certainly you have had your share in sufferings . But Providence has cast upon you want of trade , that you might appear bountiful ...
... fortune , and the interposition of many rivals , who violently ravished and withheld you from him ; and certainly you have had your share in sufferings . But Providence has cast upon you want of trade , that you might appear bountiful ...
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... fortune did confess , Beginning conquest from his royal race . But since it was decreed , auspicious King ! [ main , In Britain's right that thou shouldst wed the Heaven , as a gage , would cast some precious thing , And therefore doom ...
... fortune did confess , Beginning conquest from his royal race . But since it was decreed , auspicious King ! [ main , In Britain's right that thou shouldst wed the Heaven , as a gage , would cast some precious thing , And therefore doom ...
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... Fortune's love , But once possess'd did absolutely reign : Thus with their Amazons the heroes strove , And conquer'd first those beauties they would gain . The Duke beheld , like Scipio , with disdain , That Carthage , which he ruin'd ...
... Fortune's love , But once possess'd did absolutely reign : Thus with their Amazons the heroes strove , And conquer'd first those beauties they would gain . The Duke beheld , like Scipio , with disdain , That Carthage , which he ruin'd ...
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... Fortune power , he forced to stay , No longer durst with Virtue be a strife : This as a ransom Albemarle did pay For all the glories of so great a life . For now brave Rupert from afar appears , Whose waving streamers the glad General ...
... Fortune power , he forced to stay , No longer durst with Virtue be a strife : This as a ransom Albemarle did pay For all the glories of so great a life . For now brave Rupert from afar appears , Whose waving streamers the glad General ...
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