Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 4Jones & Company, 1829 |
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Page ix
... length teems with a work to vie With Homer's flame and Virgil's majesty . While Pindus ' lofty heights our Poet sought , ( His ravish'd mind with vast ideas fraught ) Our language fail'd beneath his rising thought . This checks not his ...
... length teems with a work to vie With Homer's flame and Virgil's majesty . While Pindus ' lofty heights our Poet sought , ( His ravish'd mind with vast ideas fraught ) Our language fail'd beneath his rising thought . This checks not his ...
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... length of this account . You have better and more profitable employment for your hours , and I wrong the public to detain you longer . In conclusion , I must leave my Poem to you with all its faults , which I hope to find fewer in the ...
... length of this account . You have better and more profitable employment for your hours , and I wrong the public to detain you longer . In conclusion , I must leave my Poem to you with all its faults , which I hope to find fewer in the ...
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... length resolved to assert the watery ball , He in himself did whole armadoes bring : Him aged seamen might their master call , And choose for general , were he not their King . It seems as every ship their Sovereign knows , His awful ...
... length resolved to assert the watery ball , He in himself did whole armadoes bring : Him aged seamen might their master call , And choose for general , were he not their King . It seems as every ship their Sovereign knows , His awful ...
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... length of time dire omens drew Of English overmatched , and Dutch too strong , Who never fought three days but to pursue . Then as an eagle , who , with pious care , Was beating widely on the wing for prey , To her now silent eiry does ...
... length of time dire omens drew Of English overmatched , and Dutch too strong , Who never fought three days but to pursue . Then as an eagle , who , with pious care , Was beating widely on the wing for prey , To her now silent eiry does ...
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... length , She seems a sea - wasp flying on the waves . This martial present , piously design'd , The loyal City gave their best - loved King ; And with a bounty ample as the wind , Built , fitted , and maintain'd , to aid him bring . By ...
... length , She seems a sea - wasp flying on the waves . This martial present , piously design'd , The loyal City gave their best - loved King ; And with a bounty ample as the wind , Built , fitted , and maintain'd , to aid him bring . By ...
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