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... heaven , that it burns down to earth , And in the furious inqueft , that it makes On God's behalf , lays wafte his fairest works . The very elements , though each be meant The minifter of man , to ferve his wants , Conspire against him ...
... heaven , that it burns down to earth , And in the furious inqueft , that it makes On God's behalf , lays wafte his fairest works . The very elements , though each be meant The minifter of man , to ferve his wants , Conspire against him ...
Side 47
... heaven In tempefts : quits his grasp upon the winds ,. And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the fkin , And putrify the breath of blooming health . He calls for famine , and the meagre fiend Blows mildew ...
... heaven In tempefts : quits his grasp upon the winds ,. And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the fkin , And putrify the breath of blooming health . He calls for famine , and the meagre fiend Blows mildew ...
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... heaven all were ! But hark - the doctor's voice ! -faft wedged between Two empirics he ftands , and with fwoln cheeks . Infpires the news , his trumpet . Keener far Than all invective is his bold harangue , While through that public ...
... heaven all were ! But hark - the doctor's voice ! -faft wedged between Two empirics he ftands , and with fwoln cheeks . Infpires the news , his trumpet . Keener far Than all invective is his bold harangue , While through that public ...
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... Of whom I needs muft augur better things , Since heaven would fure grow weary of a world Productive only of a race like our's , A monitor is wood - plank shaven thin . We wear it at our backs . There , closely 64 BOOK IT . THE TASK .
... Of whom I needs muft augur better things , Since heaven would fure grow weary of a world Productive only of a race like our's , A monitor is wood - plank shaven thin . We wear it at our backs . There , closely 64 BOOK IT . THE TASK .
Side 66
... is the spell , That none , decoyed into that fatal ring , Unless by heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wife ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit 3 66 BOOK II . THE TASK .
... is the spell , That none , decoyed into that fatal ring , Unless by heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wife ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit 3 66 BOOK II . THE TASK .
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