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... sight Wax'd pale with envy , and from thence grew white . She was in birth and parentage as high As in her fortune great or beauty rare ; And to her virtuous mind's nobility The gifts of Fate and Nature doubled were ; That in her ...
... sight Wax'd pale with envy , and from thence grew white . She was in birth and parentage as high As in her fortune great or beauty rare ; And to her virtuous mind's nobility The gifts of Fate and Nature doubled were ; That in her ...
Page 52
... sight . " Those who contemn thy sacred deity , Laugh at thy power , make them thine anger know : I faultless am ; what honour can it be , Only to wound your slave and spare your foe ? " Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan , In ...
... sight . " Those who contemn thy sacred deity , Laugh at thy power , make them thine anger know : I faultless am ; what honour can it be , Only to wound your slave and spare your foe ? " Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan , In ...
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... sight , Which seem'd like Titan , wh 1st ' some watery cloud O'erspreads his face , and his bright beams doth shroud ; Till Vesper chas'd away the conquer'd light , And forced them ( though loth ) to bid good- night . But ere Aurora ...
... sight , Which seem'd like Titan , wh 1st ' some watery cloud O'erspreads his face , and his bright beams doth shroud ; Till Vesper chas'd away the conquer'd light , And forced them ( though loth ) to bid good- night . But ere Aurora ...
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... sight : But him t ' Elysium's lasting joys they bring , Where winged angels his sad requiems sing . A DREAM OF ELYSIUM . PHOEBUS , expell'd by the approaching night , Blush'd , and for shame clos'd in his bashful light , While I , with ...
... sight : But him t ' Elysium's lasting joys they bring , Where winged angels his sad requiems sing . A DREAM OF ELYSIUM . PHOEBUS , expell'd by the approaching night , Blush'd , and for shame clos'd in his bashful light , While I , with ...
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... sight In light finds darkness , and in darkness light . ODE I. ON THE PRAISE OF POETRY . ' Tis not a pyramid of marble s one , Though high as our ambition ; ' Tis not a tomb cut out in brass , which can Give life to th ' ashes of a man ...
... sight In light finds darkness , and in darkness light . ODE I. ON THE PRAISE OF POETRY . ' Tis not a pyramid of marble s one , Though high as our ambition ; ' Tis not a tomb cut out in brass , which can Give life to th ' ashes of a man ...
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