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These Fate reserv'd to grace thy reign divine, Foreseen by me, but, ah! withheld from mine.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

Do not the hist'ries of all ages Relate miraculous presages Of strange turns in the world's affairs, Foreseen by astrologers, soothsayers, Chaldeans, learned genethliacs, And some that have writ almanacks?

From Guy Mannering — Complete by Scott, Walter, Sir

These Fate reserved to grace thy reign divine, Foreseen by me, but ah! withheld from mine.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

Foreseen as it was, the news stung a little when it came.

From Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie

"Do not the hist'ries of all ages Relate miraculous presages, Of strange turns in the world's affairs, Foreseen by astrologers, soothsayers, Chaldeans, learned genethliacs, And some that have writ almanacs?"

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams