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| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pages
...aa excellent N. ODE TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY*. Moor-Park, Feb. 14, 1651. I. As when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb, never to flow again, When this huge body's moisture was so great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat; That mountain, which was highest first of... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 528 pages
...and her lading joy. ODE TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY. Moor-Park, Feb. 14, 1691, AS when the deluge firtt began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again {When this huge body's moldure was fo great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat) i That mountain whi;h was higheit, 6rlt of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...lasting joy. ODE TO TH« ¿ТНЕУ1АУ SOCIETY. Moor-Park, Feb. 14, 1691. Aj when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again (When this huge body's moisture was so great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat) ; That mountain which was highest, first of... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 pages
...the following ode ; and assuredly it does not exceed etcn their deserts.] I. As when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again, "When this huge body's moisture was so great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat; That mountain which was highest first of all,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...humble, and most admiring servant, JONATHAN SWIFT. ODE TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY. As when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again, (When this huge body's moisture was so great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat) That mountain which was highest first of all... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 386 pages
...her lasting joy. ODE TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY.1 Moor Park, Feb. 14, 1691. I. As when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again, When this huge body's moisture was so great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat ; That mountain which was highest, first of... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...the following ode ; and assuredly it does not exceed even their deserts. I. As when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again, When this huge body's moisture was so great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat ; That mountain which was highest, first of... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1892 - 500 pages
...or diffidence as to his means of attaining a fair field for their exercise. As when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again, (When this huge body's moisture was so great, 15 That mountain which was highest, first of all Appear'd above the universal... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 pages
...her lasting joy. ODE TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY1 Moor Park, Feb. 14, 1691. I AS when the deluge first began to fall, That mighty ebb never to flow again, When this huge body's moisture was so great, It quite o'ercame the vital heat; That mountain which was highest, first of... | |
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