Poems, Volume 1W. Wilson, 1821 |
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... scene when Chatham died . B. Not so - the virtue still adorns our age , Though the chief actor died upon the stage . In him Demosthenes was heard again ; Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She clothed him with authority and awe ...
... scene when Chatham died . B. Not so - the virtue still adorns our age , Though the chief actor died upon the stage . In him Demosthenes was heard again ; Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She clothed him with authority and awe ...
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... scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms , that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land , And ...
... scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms , that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land , And ...
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... scene . In front of these came Addison . In him Humour in holiday and sightly trim ; Sublimity and attic taste , combined , To polish , furnish , and delight the mind . Then Pope , as harmony itself exact , In verse well disciplined ...
... scene . In front of these came Addison . In him Humour in holiday and sightly trim ; Sublimity and attic taste , combined , To polish , furnish , and delight the mind . Then Pope , as harmony itself exact , In verse well disciplined ...
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... scene and subject it surveys ; Thus graced , the man asserts a poet's name , And the world cheerfully admits the claim . Pity religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! [ stray , The flowers would spring where'er ...
... scene and subject it surveys ; Thus graced , the man asserts a poet's name , And the world cheerfully admits the claim . Pity religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! [ stray , The flowers would spring where'er ...
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... scene , He takes offence , and wonders what you mean ; The joy the danger and the toil o'erpays --- ' Tis exercise , and health , and length of days . Again impetuous to the field he flies ; Leaps every fence but one , there falls and ...
... scene , He takes offence , and wonders what you mean ; The joy the danger and the toil o'erpays --- ' Tis exercise , and health , and length of days . Again impetuous to the field he flies ; Leaps every fence but one , there falls and ...
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