The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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Page 27
... thou , Tarpeian poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With ...
... thou , Tarpeian poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With ...
Page 28
... thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . From the " Animadversions " no suspicion of a charge against their writer could by any process be extracted , de as the نافسية but , in ...
... thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . From the " Animadversions " no suspicion of a charge against their writer could by any process be extracted , de as the نافسية but , in ...
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... thou the mother of so sweet a child HER false imagined loss cease to lament , & c . it is rather strange that both Tickell and Fenton should call this fair infant the NE- PHEW of our author . · 1 In the ode " On the Morning of Christ's ...
... thou the mother of so sweet a child HER false imagined loss cease to lament , & c . it is rather strange that both Tickell and Fenton should call this fair infant the NE- PHEW of our author . · 1 In the ode " On the Morning of Christ's ...
Page 42
... thou clothe my fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever ...
... thou clothe my fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever ...
Page 51
... thou Eternity , who dost diffuse O'er all the enormous cave , thy giant limbs In grand repose , and guard'st the laws of Jove , And the high structures of his glorious hand . In our author's poem to his father there is a very noble line ...
... thou Eternity , who dost diffuse O'er all the enormous cave , thy giant limbs In grand repose , and guard'st the laws of Jove , And the high structures of his glorious hand . In our author's poem to his father there is a very noble line ...
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