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... fair Soul to Heaven hath ta'en her Flight , For lafting Sun - fhine leaving this weak Light ! The Glory then of Grampian Swains is gone : Let Fields and Flocks his Lofs for ever moan . Burst forth my Soul in Sorrows faddeft Strain ...
... fair Soul to Heaven hath ta'en her Flight , For lafting Sun - fhine leaving this weak Light ! The Glory then of Grampian Swains is gone : Let Fields and Flocks his Lofs for ever moan . Burst forth my Soul in Sorrows faddeft Strain ...
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... fair Boy Apollo new , Had Colours fine enough for her fair Hue , While by fair Ora's Flow'ry Banks She iported , Where Swans did tweetly fing , and Swains reforted , In what fweet Sighs did He his Sorrows fing , And all Bodotria's ...
... fair Boy Apollo new , Had Colours fine enough for her fair Hue , While by fair Ora's Flow'ry Banks She iported , Where Swans did tweetly fing , and Swains reforted , In what fweet Sighs did He his Sorrows fing , And all Bodotria's ...
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... Fair , In fweet Seraphick Stile , high fwelling rare , My Thoughts transported in a Trance outfly The Reach of Reason and Mortality ; And humbly falling Heaven's high Throne before , With Sighs and Fear that Majefty adore , Whose ...
... Fair , In fweet Seraphick Stile , high fwelling rare , My Thoughts transported in a Trance outfly The Reach of Reason and Mortality ; And humbly falling Heaven's high Throne before , With Sighs and Fear that Majefty adore , Whose ...
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... fair . The Shadow of the Judgement . The River of Forth feafting . Mifcellanies . Epitaphs . Polemo - Middinia inter Vitarvam & Nebernam . Poems never before Printed . Divine Poems and Hymns . Epigrams and Miscellanies . An Elegy upon ...
... fair . The Shadow of the Judgement . The River of Forth feafting . Mifcellanies . Epitaphs . Polemo - Middinia inter Vitarvam & Nebernam . Poems never before Printed . Divine Poems and Hymns . Epigrams and Miscellanies . An Elegy upon ...
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... fair View , thofe which others have produc'd . Neither am I to give them at large , but , as briefly as I can , to tell what they are , and what they Contain . The Matter is , fome of our Hiftorians , and fome English ones too ...
... fair View , thofe which others have produc'd . Neither am I to give them at large , but , as briefly as I can , to tell what they are , and what they Contain . The Matter is , fome of our Hiftorians , and fome English ones too ...
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Page 26 - ... flowers ; To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leafy bowers Thou thy Creator's goodness dost declare, And what dear gifts on thee He did not spare, A stain to human sense in sin that lowers. What soul can be so sick which by thy songs...
Page 12 - My thoughts hold mortal strife; I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries Peace to my soul to bring Oft call that prince which here doth monarchize — But he, grim grinning King, Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surpri.se, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.
Page 169 - For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Page 22 - A treasury which bankrupt time devours, A knowledge than grave ignorance more blind, A vain delight our equals to command, A style of greatness...
Page 26 - Nor mov'd at glory's breath, Which shadow-like on wings of time doth glide ; So malice to disarm, And conquer hasty wrath, As to do good to those that work your harm : To hatch no base desires, Or gold or land to gain, Well...
Page 5 - I estranged live, Contented more with what your shades me give, Than if I had what Thetis doth embrace ; What snaky eye, grown jealous of my...
Page 9 - This Life, which seems so fair, Is like a bubble blown up in the air By sporting children's breath, Who chase it everywhere And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it...
Page 222 - He heth consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, feight in his imagination.
Page 8 - Most blest abid'st above the sphere of spheres; If heavenly laws, alas ! have not thee bound From looking to this globe that all upbears, If ruth and pity there above be found, O deign to lend a look unto those tears.