Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err , there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night , And casts a gleam over this tufted grove : I cannot halloo to my brothers , but Such noise as I can make to ...
... Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err , there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night , And casts a gleam over this tufted grove : I cannot halloo to my brothers , but Such noise as I can make to ...
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... Turn swift their various motions , or are turn'd By his magnetic beam , that gently warms The universe , and to each inward part With gentle penetration , though unseen , Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep ; So wondrously was set ...
... Turn swift their various motions , or are turn'd By his magnetic beam , that gently warms The universe , and to each inward part With gentle penetration , though unseen , Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep ; So wondrously was set ...
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... turn'd to stars Numberless , as thou seest , and how they move ; Each had his place appointed , each his course ; The rest in circuit walls this universe . Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though ...
... turn'd to stars Numberless , as thou seest , and how they move ; Each had his place appointed , each his course ; The rest in circuit walls this universe . Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though ...
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... turn'd For envy ; yet with jealous leer malign Ey'd them askance , and to himself thus ' plain'd . Lost sight of him : one of the banish'd crew. To prune these growing plants , and tend these flowers . Which were it toilsome , yet with ...
... turn'd For envy ; yet with jealous leer malign Ey'd them askance , and to himself thus ' plain'd . Lost sight of him : one of the banish'd crew. To prune these growing plants , and tend these flowers . Which were it toilsome , yet with ...
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... turn'd , and under open sky ador'd The God that made both sky , air , Earth , and Heaven , Which they beheld , the Moon's resplendent globe , And starry pole : " Thou also mad'st the night , Maker Omnipotent , and thou the day , Which ...
... turn'd , and under open sky ador'd The God that made both sky , air , Earth , and Heaven , Which they beheld , the Moon's resplendent globe , And starry pole : " Thou also mad'st the night , Maker Omnipotent , and thou the day , Which ...
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