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Page 37
... flowers , her aromatic gums , Disclosing paradise where'er He treads ? She quakes at His approach . Her hollow womb , Conceiving thunders , through a thousand deeps And fiery caverns roars beneath His foot . The hills move lightly and ...
... flowers , her aromatic gums , Disclosing paradise where'er He treads ? She quakes at His approach . Her hollow womb , Conceiving thunders , through a thousand deeps And fiery caverns roars beneath His foot . The hills move lightly and ...
Page 41
... flower , for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage , and her myrtle bowers . To shake thy senate , and from heights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes , was never meant ...
... flower , for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage , and her myrtle bowers . To shake thy senate , and from heights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes , was never meant ...
Page 70
... flower dishevelled in the wind ; Riches have wings , and grandeur is a dream ; The man we celebrate must find a tomb , And we that worship him , ignoble graves . Nothing is proof against the general curse Of vanity , that seizes all ...
... flower dishevelled in the wind ; Riches have wings , and grandeur is a dream ; The man we celebrate must find a tomb , And we that worship him , ignoble graves . Nothing is proof against the general curse Of vanity , that seizes all ...
Page 78
... transplantation in an ampler space . Indulged in what they wish , they soon supply Large foliage , overshadowing golden flowers , Blown on the summit of the apparent fruit . These have their sexes , and when summer shines The 78 THE TASK .
... transplantation in an ampler space . Indulged in what they wish , they soon supply Large foliage , overshadowing golden flowers , Blown on the summit of the apparent fruit . These have their sexes , and when summer shines The 78 THE TASK .
Page 79
... flower to flower , and even the breathing air Wafts the rich prize to its appointed use . Not so when winter scowls . Assistant art Then acts in nature's office , brings to pass The glad espousals and insures the crop , Grudge not , ye ...
... flower to flower , and even the breathing air Wafts the rich prize to its appointed use . Not so when winter scowls . Assistant art Then acts in nature's office , brings to pass The glad espousals and insures the crop , Grudge not , ye ...
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