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... o'er , Then wishes and a warmth unknown before : What followed was all ecstasy and trance , Immortal pleasures round my swimining eyes did dance . And speechless joys , in whose sweet tumults tost , I thought my breath and my new being ...
... o'er , Then wishes and a warmth unknown before : What followed was all ecstasy and trance , Immortal pleasures round my swimining eyes did dance . And speechless joys , in whose sweet tumults tost , I thought my breath and my new being ...
Page xxxii
... O'er all the universe let it be spread , That now the shepherd of the flock is dead . The royal Pan , that shepherd of the sheep ; He who to leave his flock did dying weep , Is gone ! ah ! gone ! ne'er to return , & c . This was ...
... O'er all the universe let it be spread , That now the shepherd of the flock is dead . The royal Pan , that shepherd of the sheep ; He who to leave his flock did dying weep , Is gone ! ah ! gone ! ne'er to return , & c . This was ...
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... O'er them , whose cause he seems to take in And prudently would make them lords at sea , To whom with ease he can give laws by land . This saw our king ; and long within his breast His pensive counsels balanc'd to and fro : He griev'd ...
... O'er them , whose cause he seems to take in And prudently would make them lords at sea , To whom with ease he can give laws by land . This saw our king ; and long within his breast His pensive counsels balanc'd to and fro : He griev'd ...
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... o'er the Duke their pious wings display , And theirs the noblest spoils of Britain seek . || Th ' Elean , & c . ] Where the Olympic games were celebrated . Orig . ed . Lands unfix'd ] From Virgil : Credas innare revulsas Orig . ed ...
... o'er the Duke their pious wings display , And theirs the noblest spoils of Britain seek . || Th ' Elean , & c . ] Where the Olympic games were celebrated . Orig . ed . Lands unfix'd ] From Virgil : Credas innare revulsas Orig . ed ...
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... o'er , the salt sea waves with- And shakes them from the rising beak in drops . Some the gall'd ropes with dawby marling bind , Or searcloth masts with strong tarpawling coats : + His majesty repairs the fleet . Orig . ed . 1 Wings he ...
... o'er , the salt sea waves with- And shakes them from the rising beak in drops . Some the gall'd ropes with dawby marling bind , Or searcloth masts with strong tarpawling coats : + His majesty repairs the fleet . Orig . ed . 1 Wings he ...
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