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Page viii
... race , With necks in thunder clothed , and long - resound- ing pace . Hark , his hands the lyre explore Bright eyed fancy hovering o'er , Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . But , ah ! ' tis ...
... race , With necks in thunder clothed , and long - resound- ing pace . Hark , his hands the lyre explore Bright eyed fancy hovering o'er , Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . But , ah ! ' tis ...
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... race , Thou only fit to fill great Charles ' place ! Ah wretched Britons ! ah too stubborn isle ! Ah stiff - neck'd Israel on bless'd Canaan's soil ! Are those dear proofs of Heaven's indulgence vain , Restoring David and his gentle ...
... race , Thou only fit to fill great Charles ' place ! Ah wretched Britons ! ah too stubborn isle ! Ah stiff - neck'd Israel on bless'd Canaan's soil ! Are those dear proofs of Heaven's indulgence vain , Restoring David and his gentle ...
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... 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'd that Lawson should be slain . Lawson amongst the ...
... 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'd that Lawson should be slain . Lawson amongst the ...
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... race began , O'er infancy he swiftly ran ; The future god at first was more than man : Dangers and toils , and Juno's hate , Even o'er his cradle lay in wait , And there he grappled first with Fate : In his young hands the hissing ...
... race began , O'er infancy he swiftly ran ; The future god at first was more than man : Dangers and toils , and Juno's hate , Even o'er his cradle lay in wait , And there he grappled first with Fate : In his young hands the hissing ...
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... race , As ever try'd the extent and stretch of grace ; God's pamper'd people , whom , debauched with ease , No king could govern , nor no god could please ; ( Gods they had try'd of every shape and size That god - smiths could produce ...
... race , As ever try'd the extent and stretch of grace ; God's pamper'd people , whom , debauched with ease , No king could govern , nor no god could please ; ( Gods they had try'd of every shape and size That god - smiths could produce ...
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