Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 3Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... Give me a man , if your effeminate bands A man can boast . Your armies I defy ! " DAVID . What shall be done to him who shall subdue This vile idolater ? ABNER . He shall receive Such aniple bounties , such profuse rewards , As might ...
... Give me a man , if your effeminate bands A man can boast . Your armies I defy ! " DAVID . What shall be done to him who shall subdue This vile idolater ? ABNER . He shall receive Such aniple bounties , such profuse rewards , As might ...
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... give thee up a prey To my victorious arm . This day I mean To make the uncircumcised tribes confess There is a God in Israel . I will give thee , Spite of thy vaunted strength and giant bulk , To glut the carrion kites . Nor thee alone ...
... give thee up a prey To my victorious arm . This day I mean To make the uncircumcised tribes confess There is a God in Israel . I will give thee , Spite of thy vaunted strength and giant bulk , To glut the carrion kites . Nor thee alone ...
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... give . But let not this one prosperous event , Thy young champion By Heaven directed , be ascrib'd to me ; 4 BELSHAZZAR . A SACRED DRAMA . How art thou fallen. ABNER . King of Israel , hail ! Now thou art king indeed . The youth has con ...
... give . But let not this one prosperous event , Thy young champion By Heaven directed , be ascrib'd to me ; 4 BELSHAZZAR . A SACRED DRAMA . How art thou fallen. ABNER . King of Israel , hail ! Now thou art king indeed . The youth has con ...
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... give us more . Ill could my ardent spirit be content With meagre abstinence and hungry hope . Let those misjudging Israelites , who want The nimble spirits and the active soul , Call their blunt feelings virtue : let them drudge , In ...
... give us more . Ill could my ardent spirit be content With meagre abstinence and hungry hope . Let those misjudging Israelites , who want The nimble spirits and the active soul , Call their blunt feelings virtue : let them drudge , In ...
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... give it body , circumstance , or breath . The seeds of mighty deeds are labouring here , And struggling for a birth ! ' Tis near the hour The king is wont to summon us to council : Ere that , this big conception of my mind I'll shape to ...
... give it body , circumstance , or breath . The seeds of mighty deeds are labouring here , And struggling for a birth ! ' Tis near the hour The king is wont to summon us to council : Ere that , this big conception of my mind I'll shape to ...
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arms Bavius beauty behold BELSHAZZAR bless bless'd bliss breast breath bright charms Columbo court cried crown'd Cupid DARIUS dear death delight Derry divine dread Dunciad e'en e'er earth ELIAB epigram eternal eyes fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame fond fool give glory goddess grace grief hand happy hast hear heart Heaven heavenly hero honour hope Iliad JOCHEBED king live Lord lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion PHARNACES Pindaric pleasure poem poet praise pride queen rage reign rise round sacred Sappho satire scene shade shine sigh sing skies smile soft song SORANUS soul spirit Spleen sweet taste tears tell thee thine things thou thought throne tongue trembling truth Twas verse vex'd Virgil virtue wings youth