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... arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come ! Hard elements of unauspicious war , Vain vows to Heaven , and unavailing care ! DRYDEN . Hoffman , in his Lexicon , gives a very satisfactory account of this ...
... arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come ! Hard elements of unauspicious war , Vain vows to Heaven , and unavailing care ! DRYDEN . Hoffman , in his Lexicon , gives a very satisfactory account of this ...
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Alexander Chalmers. With that my flying Muse I thought to clasp Within my arms , but did a shadow grasp . Thus chiefest joys glide with the swiftest stream , And all our greatest pleasure's but a dream . ON HIS MAJESTY'S RETURN OUT OF ...
Alexander Chalmers. With that my flying Muse I thought to clasp Within my arms , but did a shadow grasp . Thus chiefest joys glide with the swiftest stream , And all our greatest pleasure's but a dream . ON HIS MAJESTY'S RETURN OUT OF ...
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... chose , Till up in arms my passions rose , And cast away her yoke . Mary then , and gentle Anne , Both to reign at once began ; Alternately they sway'd , And sometimes Mary was the fair ODE ... IMITATION OF MARTIAL . 73.
... chose , Till up in arms my passions rose , And cast away her yoke . Mary then , and gentle Anne , Both to reign at once began ; Alternately they sway'd , And sometimes Mary was the fair ODE ... IMITATION OF MARTIAL . 73.
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... arms , thou most divine And richest offering of Loretto's shrine ! Where , like some holy sacrifice t ' expire , A fever burns thee , and Love lights the fire . Angels ( they say ) brought the fam'd chapel there , And bore the sacred ...
... arms , thou most divine And richest offering of Loretto's shrine ! Where , like some holy sacrifice t ' expire , A fever burns thee , and Love lights the fire . Angels ( they say ) brought the fam'd chapel there , And bore the sacred ...
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... arms of proof , her nakedness ; There perjuries like cannons roar aloud , And lyes flew thick , like cannons ' smoky cloud , Here Learning and th ' Arts met ; as much they fear'd As when the Hunns of old and Goths appear'd . What should ...
... arms of proof , her nakedness ; There perjuries like cannons roar aloud , And lyes flew thick , like cannons ' smoky cloud , Here Learning and th ' Arts met ; as much they fear'd As when the Hunns of old and Goths appear'd . What should ...
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