The Works of the English Poets, Volumen46R. Hett, 1779 - 376 páginas |
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... , Nor Heathen wit debauch one Chriftian line , While with the coarfe and daubing paint we hide The fhining beauties of eternal truth , 3 . That That in her native drefs appears most bright , And 8 VERSES TO MR . WATTS .
... , Nor Heathen wit debauch one Chriftian line , While with the coarfe and daubing paint we hide The fhining beauties of eternal truth , 3 . That That in her native drefs appears most bright , And 8 VERSES TO MR . WATTS .
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... most bright , And charms the eyes of angels . - Oh ! like thee every nobler genius tune his voice Let To fubjects worthy of their towering thoughts . Let Heaven and Anna then your tuneful art Improve , and confecrate your deathlefs lays ...
... most bright , And charms the eyes of angels . - Oh ! like thee every nobler genius tune his voice Let To fubjects worthy of their towering thoughts . Let Heaven and Anna then your tuneful art Improve , and confecrate your deathlefs lays ...
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... most glorious defign ! How bafely has it been driven away from its proper ftation in the temple of God , and abused to much difhonour ! The iniquity of men has constrained it to serve their vileft purposes , while the fons of piety ...
... most glorious defign ! How bafely has it been driven away from its proper ftation in the temple of God , and abused to much difhonour ! The iniquity of men has constrained it to serve their vileft purposes , while the fons of piety ...
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... character to drollery , and dreffed her up in a most vile and ridiculous disguise , for the scorn of the ruder herd of mankind . The vices have been painted like fo many Goddeffes , the charms of wit have been added to 3 God- 14 PREFACE .
... character to drollery , and dreffed her up in a most vile and ridiculous disguise , for the scorn of the ruder herd of mankind . The vices have been painted like fo many Goddeffes , the charms of wit have been added to 3 God- 14 PREFACE .
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... most famed human writers , how much more muft their descriptions of God and heaven exceed all that is poffible to be faid by a meaner tongue ? When they speak of the dwelling - place of God , " He inhabits eternity , and fits upon the ...
... most famed human writers , how much more muft their descriptions of God and heaven exceed all that is poffible to be faid by a meaner tongue ? When they speak of the dwelling - place of God , " He inhabits eternity , and fits upon the ...
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