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H E L i e O N B A: ilQN- of a SONNET of an AIR-T, from the Italian.of PARINI,Iy By Mrs. PIOZZI.■ • »■IsT empty fpace behold me hurl’d,: The i'port and wonder of the world, Who eager gaze 'while! afpire,Expanded with aerial fire.# «ftAnd fince Man’s felfifh race demands More empire than the feas or lands ;For him my.courage mounts the ikies;Invoking: Nature whilft I rife.# 4 « * Mother of all! if thus refin’d,My flights can benefit mankind*Let them by me new realms, prepare.And take poffeflioa of the air.But if to ills alone I lead,.Quickly, oh quick let me recede ; Or blaze a fplendid exhibition,A beacon for dteir mad ambition !
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Whitehall Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Aug 19, 1786
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