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  1. Agrippina, a Tragedy  (6 results)
            32    Scared at the sound and dazzled with its brightness?
            55    Have seen your soul, and wondered at its daring:
            70    Even when its will seemed wrote in lines of blood,
            83    Pours its cool dictates in the madding ear
            92    To its original atoms— tell me! say,
          159    I will not meet its poison. Let him feel

  2. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (6 results)
              P    Pindar styles his own poetry with its musical accompanyments, [Greek sentence (omitted),
              P    poetry, which gives life and lustre to all it touches, are here described; its quiet
              P    of diction and luxuriant harmony of numbers; and its more rapid and irresistible course,
              P    same Providence that sends the Day by its chearful presence to dispel the gloom and
              P    its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the
              P    enemies to ravens that croak and clamour in vain below, while it pursues its flight,

  3. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]  (6 results)
              2    And furthest send its weight athwart the field,
            42    Then grasped its weight, elusive of his hold;
            50    Sings in its rapid way and strengthens as it flies;
            69    The orb on high tenacious of its course,
            72    Its ancient lord secure of victory.
            74    Tremble ere it precipitates its fall;

  4. [Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9.  (4 results)
              7    When thwart the road a river rolled its flood
            41    The flood on either hand its billows rears,
            53    Whate'er with copious train its channel fills,
            70    Proud of its thousand dyes and luxury of light.

  5. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (3 results)
            42    Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
            56    And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
          102    'That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high,

  6. Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:  (3 results)
            18    And all its jetty honours turn to snow;
            21    Who taught this vast machine its steadfast laws,
            41    How the rude surge its sandy bounds control;

  7. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode  (2 results)
              P    farouche & jealous of its liberty.' Letter to Wharton, 21 Aug. 1755, T & W no. 205.]
              P    it even has built its nest in the Peak of Derbyshire. [See Willoughby's Ornithol.

  8. [Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1.  (2 results)
            58    Back to its source divine the Julian race.
            88    And to this bosom give its wonted peace,

  9. [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]  (1 result)
            85    Imbibes a flavour of its parent earth:

  10. [Conan]  (1 result)
              6    As the whirlwind in its course;

  11. [Epitaph on Mrs Mason]  (1 result)
              3    Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high

  12. The Fatal Sisters. An Ode  (1 result)
            38    Pent within its bleak domain,

  13. [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]  (1 result)
            17    First most devoutly having said its prayers,

  14. Ode for Music  (1 result)
            74    'The fragrance of its blushing head:

  15. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]  (1 result)
            13    Delights the favourite youth within its flood to lave.

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