Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 4Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... leave his favourite man , his chiefest care , More wretched than the vilest insects are ? O ! how much happier and more safe are they ? If helpless millions must be doom'd a prey To yelling furies , and for ever burn In that sad place ...
... leave his favourite man , his chiefest care , More wretched than the vilest insects are ? O ! how much happier and more safe are they ? If helpless millions must be doom'd a prey To yelling furies , and for ever burn In that sad place ...
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... leave to busy chronicles : Such whose supine felicity but makes In story chasms , in epochas mistakes ; O'er whom Time gently shakes his wings of down , Till with his silent sickle they are mown . Such is not Charles's too too active ...
... leave to busy chronicles : Such whose supine felicity but makes In story chasms , in epochas mistakes ; O'er whom Time gently shakes his wings of down , Till with his silent sickle they are mown . Such is not Charles's too too active ...
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... leave to tell you , that as I have endea- voured to adorn it with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . The composition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit ; and wit in the poet , or wit ...
... leave to tell you , that as I have endea- voured to adorn it with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . The composition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit ; and wit in the poet , or wit ...
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... leave them to speak for me , and , if they can , to make out that character , not pretending to a greater , which I have given them . And now , Sir , it is time I should relieve you from the tedious length of this account . You have ...
... leave them to speak for me , and , if they can , to make out that character , not pretending to a greater , which I have given them . And now , Sir , it is time I should relieve you from the tedious length of this account . You have ...
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... leave , He takes this time his secret hate to show ; Which Charles does with a mind so calm receive , As one that neither seeks nor shuns his foe . With France , to aid the Dutch , the Danes unite ; France as their tyrant , Denmark as ...
... leave , He takes this time his secret hate to show ; Which Charles does with a mind so calm receive , As one that neither seeks nor shuns his foe . With France , to aid the Dutch , the Danes unite ; France as their tyrant , Denmark as ...
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