The Works of the English Poets, Volumen49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 páginas |
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... Britons never known before ? And fail'd my fleets for this ; on Indian tides To float , unactive , with the veering winds ? The mockery of war ! while hot disease , And floth diftemper'd , fwept off burning crowds , For action ardent ...
... Britons never known before ? And fail'd my fleets for this ; on Indian tides To float , unactive , with the veering winds ? The mockery of war ! while hot disease , And floth diftemper'd , fwept off burning crowds , For action ardent ...
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... Britons came , a gloomy few , With tempeft black , the goodly scene deform'd , And laid their glory waste . The bolts of Fate Refiflefs thunder'd through their yielding fides ; Fierce o'er their beauty blaz'd the lurid flame ; And feiz ...
... Britons came , a gloomy few , With tempeft black , the goodly scene deform'd , And laid their glory waste . The bolts of Fate Refiflefs thunder'd through their yielding fides ; Fierce o'er their beauty blaz'd the lurid flame ; And feiz ...
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... Briton feiz'd ♪ and feiz'd beneath The flumbering terrors of a British fleet ? Then ardent rife ! Oh , great in vengeance rife ! O'erturn the proud , teach rapine to restore : And as you ride fublimely round the world , Make every ...
... Briton feiz'd ♪ and feiz'd beneath The flumbering terrors of a British fleet ? Then ardent rife ! Oh , great in vengeance rife ! O'erturn the proud , teach rapine to restore : And as you ride fublimely round the world , Make every ...
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... Britons , your boasted isle : her princes funk ; Her high - built honour moulder'd to the duft ; Unnerv'd her force ; her fpirit vanish'd quite ; With rapid wing her riches fled away ; Her unfrequented ports alone the fign 240 Of what ...
... Britons , your boasted isle : her princes funk ; Her high - built honour moulder'd to the duft ; Unnerv'd her force ; her fpirit vanish'd quite ; With rapid wing her riches fled away ; Her unfrequented ports alone the fign 240 Of what ...
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... Britons wield the fceptre of their choice : " And there , to finish what his fires began , " A Prince behold ! for Me who burns fincere , " Ev'n with a fubject's zeal . He my great work 370 " Will parent - like sustain ; and added give ...
... Britons wield the fceptre of their choice : " And there , to finish what his fires began , " A Prince behold ! for Me who burns fincere , " Ev'n with a fubject's zeal . He my great work 370 " Will parent - like sustain ; and added give ...
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