The Works of the English Poets, 39. köideJ. Nichols, 1779 - 736 pages |
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... Learning call ? We oddly Plato's paradox make good , Our knowledge is but mere remembrance all ; Remembrance is our treasure and our food ; Nature's fair table - book , our tender fouls , We fcrawl all o'er with old and empty rules ...
... Learning call ? We oddly Plato's paradox make good , Our knowledge is but mere remembrance all ; Remembrance is our treasure and our food ; Nature's fair table - book , our tender fouls , We fcrawl all o'er with old and empty rules ...
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... learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of fouls . V. Let not old Rome boast Fabius ' fate ; He fav'd his country by delays , But you by peace . You bought it at a cheaper rate ; B 2 Nor Nor has it left ...
... learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of fouls . V. Let not old Rome boast Fabius ' fate ; He fav'd his country by delays , But you by peace . You bought it at a cheaper rate ; B 2 Nor Nor has it left ...
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... Learning's little houfhold did embark With her world's fruitful fyftem in her facred ark , At the firft ebb of noife and fears , Philofophy's exalted head appears ; And the Dove - Mufe will now no longer stay , But plumes her filver ...
... Learning's little houfhold did embark With her world's fruitful fyftem in her facred ark , At the firft ebb of noife and fears , Philofophy's exalted head appears ; And the Dove - Mufe will now no longer stay , But plumes her filver ...
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... learning narrow as our trade ; Inftead of boldly failing far , to buy A ftock of wisdom and philosophy , We fondly stay at home , in fear Of every cenfuring privateer ; Forcing a wretched trade by beating down the fale , And felling ...
... learning narrow as our trade ; Inftead of boldly failing far , to buy A ftock of wisdom and philosophy , We fondly stay at home , in fear Of every cenfuring privateer ; Forcing a wretched trade by beating down the fale , And felling ...
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... learning and the wit , And though the title feems to fhow The name and man by whom the book was writ , Yet how fhall they be brought to know , Whether that very name was he , or you , or I ? Lefs fhould I daub it o'er with tranfitory ...
... learning and the wit , And though the title feems to fhow The name and man by whom the book was writ , Yet how fhall they be brought to know , Whether that very name was he , or you , or I ? Lefs fhould I daub it o'er with tranfitory ...
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