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... thro ' her wide domain ; Their various tastes in different arts display'd Like temper'd harmony of light and fhade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am , With fincere Refpect ...
... thro ' her wide domain ; Their various tastes in different arts display'd Like temper'd harmony of light and fhade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am , With fincere Refpect ...
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... thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns . Long had fhe fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden ...
... thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns . Long had fhe fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden ...
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... liftening fear and dumb amazement all ; When to the startled eye the fudden glance Appears far south , eruptive thro ' the cloud ; D 2 And And following flower , in explofion vast , The Thunder CHAP . XVI . NARRATIVE PIECES . 5 *
... liftening fear and dumb amazement all ; When to the startled eye the fudden glance Appears far south , eruptive thro ' the cloud ; D 2 And And following flower , in explofion vast , The Thunder CHAP . XVI . NARRATIVE PIECES . 5 *
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... thro ' the guilty hear , " With tongues of feraphs whispers peace to thine , " ' Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment to the ground , A blacken'd ...
... thro ' the guilty hear , " With tongues of feraphs whispers peace to thine , " ' Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment to the ground , A blacken'd ...
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... fyftem only , but the whole must fall . Let earth , unblanc'd from her orbit fly , Planets and Suns run lawless thro ' the sky ; F 5 Let Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurl'd , Being CHAP . XIII . 105 DIDACTIC PIECES .
... fyftem only , but the whole must fall . Let earth , unblanc'd from her orbit fly , Planets and Suns run lawless thro ' the sky ; F 5 Let Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurl'd , Being CHAP . XIII . 105 DIDACTIC PIECES .
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