Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical Notices |
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... wonder ! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed , Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here with Pan , or Sylvan ; by blest song 315 325 Lad . Shepherd , I take thy word And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy , Which ...
... wonder ! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed , Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here with Pan , or Sylvan ; by blest song 315 325 Lad . Shepherd , I take thy word And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy , Which ...
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... wonder , fall'n such a pernicious highth . " He scarce had ceas'd when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield , Ethereal temper , massy , large and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on ...
... wonder , fall'n such a pernicious highth . " He scarce had ceas'd when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield , Ethereal temper , massy , large and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on ...
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... wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by ...
... wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by ...
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... wonder at the sudden view Of all this world at once . As when a scout , Through dark and desert ways with peril gone All night , at last by break of cheerful dawn Obtains the brow of some high - climbing hill , Which to his eye ...
... wonder at the sudden view Of all this world at once . As when a scout , Through dark and desert ways with peril gone All night , at last by break of cheerful dawn Obtains the brow of some high - climbing hill , Which to his eye ...
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... wonder now he views , To all delight of human sense expos'd , In narrow room , Nature's whole wealth , yea more , A Heaven on Earth : for blissful Paradise Of God the garden was , by him in the east Of Eden planted : Eden stretch'd her ...
... wonder now he views , To all delight of human sense expos'd , In narrow room , Nature's whole wealth , yea more , A Heaven on Earth : for blissful Paradise Of God the garden was , by him in the east Of Eden planted : Eden stretch'd her ...
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