The British Poets, Volumes 9-12A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, 1773 |
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... best notes are treafon to his fame , Join'd with the loud applaufe of public voice ; Since Heaven , what praife we offer to his name , Hath render'd too authentic by its choice . III . Tho ' in his praife no arts can lib'ral be , Since ...
... best notes are treafon to his fame , Join'd with the loud applaufe of public voice ; Since Heaven , what praife we offer to his name , Hath render'd too authentic by its choice . III . Tho ' in his praife no arts can lib'ral be , Since ...
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... best - lov'd Pompey did discard . IX . He private mark'd the fault of others sway , And fet as fea - marks for himself to fhun : Not like rafh monarchs , who their youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . X. And yet ...
... best - lov'd Pompey did discard . IX . He private mark'd the fault of others sway , And fet as fea - marks for himself to fhun : Not like rafh monarchs , who their youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . X. And yet ...
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... best of kings : Her melting strains in you a tomb have found , And lie like bees in their own fweetnefs drown'd . He that brought peace , and difcord could atone ; His name is music of itself alone . Now while the facred oil anoints ...
... best of kings : Her melting strains in you a tomb have found , And lie like bees in their own fweetnefs drown'd . He that brought peace , and difcord could atone ; His name is music of itself alone . Now while the facred oil anoints ...
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... best of kings , that we may praise his fub- jects without offending him . Doubtless it proceeds from a juft confidence of his own virtue , which the luftre of no other can be fo great as to darken in him ; for the good or the valiant ...
... best of kings , that we may praise his fub- jects without offending him . Doubtless it proceeds from a juft confidence of his own virtue , which the luftre of no other can be fo great as to darken in him ; for the good or the valiant ...
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... · but seldom , and with modefty ; how much more just- by may I challenge that privilege to do it , with the fame perquifites , from the best and most judicious- of Latin writers ? In fome places , where either C 4 SEVERAL OCCASIONS . 39.
... · but seldom , and with modefty ; how much more just- by may I challenge that privilege to do it , with the fame perquifites , from the best and most judicious- of Latin writers ? In fome places , where either C 4 SEVERAL OCCASIONS . 39.
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