Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 3Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... live to tell it thee ? Must die a bloody death ! My child , my son , My youngest born , my darling must be slain . MIRIAM . The helpless innocent , and must he die ? This seeming evil for some latent good . Yes , I will laud thy grace ...
... live to tell it thee ? Must die a bloody death ! My child , my son , My youngest born , my darling must be slain . MIRIAM . The helpless innocent , and must he die ? This seeming evil for some latent good . Yes , I will laud thy grace ...
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... live to serve his upstart race More than an host . PRINCESS . How ill does it beseem Thy tender years , and gentle womanhood , To steel thy breast to Pity's sacred touch ! So weak , so unprotected is our sex , So constantly expos'd , so ...
... live to serve his upstart race More than an host . PRINCESS . How ill does it beseem Thy tender years , and gentle womanhood , To steel thy breast to Pity's sacred touch ! So weak , so unprotected is our sex , So constantly expos'd , so ...
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... lives ! he lives ! JOCHEBED . Impossible - Oh , do not mock my grief ! See'st thou that empty vessel ! MIRIAM . From ... live - long night In praises to Jehovah , who thus mocks All human foresight , and converts the means Of seeming ...
... lives ! he lives ! JOCHEBED . Impossible - Oh , do not mock my grief ! See'st thou that empty vessel ! MIRIAM . From ... live - long night In praises to Jehovah , who thus mocks All human foresight , and converts the means Of seeming ...
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... live but in the eye of observation , These have their meed at once . But there's a joy , To the fond votaries of fame unknown , To hear the still small voice of Conscience speak Its whispering plaudit to the silent soul . Heaven notes ...
... live but in the eye of observation , These have their meed at once . But there's a joy , To the fond votaries of fame unknown , To hear the still small voice of Conscience speak Its whispering plaudit to the silent soul . Heaven notes ...
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... lives Of needless thousands ? Why protract a war Which may at once be ended ? Are not you Servants to Saul , your king ... live ours Give me a man , if your effeminate bands A man can boast . Your armies I defy ! " DAVID . What shall be ...
... lives Of needless thousands ? Why protract a war Which may at once be ended ? Are not you Servants to Saul , your king ... live ours Give me a man , if your effeminate bands A man can boast . Your armies I defy ! " DAVID . What shall be ...
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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