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... SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID , IN FOUR BOOKS . Martial , Lib . II . Ep . xc XI . Of Myself .. Book I. .............. 140 Martial , Lib . X. Ep . xlvii ........ II . 148 HI . 155 IV . The Country Life . Lib . IV . Plantarum . 201 ...
... SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID , IN FOUR BOOKS . Martial , Lib . II . Ep . xc XI . Of Myself .. Book I. .............. 140 Martial , Lib . X. Ep . xlvii ........ II . 148 HI . 155 IV . The Country Life . Lib . IV . Plantarum . 201 ...
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... sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew , The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest : That right Porphyrian tree , which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were ...
... sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew , The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest : That right Porphyrian tree , which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were ...
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... sacred show , If in Alpheus ' silver flight , If in my verse thou take delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is , Lofty as that , and smooth as this . In the Nemean Ode , the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe ...
... sacred show , If in Alpheus ' silver flight , If in my verse thou take delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is , Lofty as that , and smooth as this . In the Nemean Ode , the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe ...
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... sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane ...
... sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane ...
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... Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and to repose on its veracity ...
... Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and to repose on its veracity ...
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