Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J.Woodward, 1836 |
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... Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide nothing from your sight , ( We , wretched mortals ! lost in doubts below , But guess by rumour , and but boast we know ) Oh ! say what heroes , fired by thirst of fame , Or urged by ...
... Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide nothing from your sight , ( We , wretched mortals ! lost in doubts below , But guess by rumour , and but boast we know ) Oh ! say what heroes , fired by thirst of fame , Or urged by ...
Page xli
... heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great ; Foe to loud praise , and friend to learned ease , Content with science in the vale of peace . Calmly he look'd on either life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From ...
... heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great ; Foe to loud praise , and friend to learned ease , Content with science in the vale of peace . Calmly he look'd on either life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From ...
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... Heaven decrees ! with Heaven who can contest ? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere , Since all things lost on earth are treasured there : There heroes ' wits are kept in ponderous vases , And beaus ' in snuff - boxes and tweezer ...
... Heaven decrees ! with Heaven who can contest ? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere , Since all things lost on earth are treasured there : There heroes ' wits are kept in ponderous vases , And beaus ' in snuff - boxes and tweezer ...
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... Heaven listen'd while you sung , And truths divine came mended from that tongue . From lips like those what precept fail'd to move ? Too soon they taught me ' twas no sin to love : Back through the paths of pleasing sense I ran , Nor ...
... Heaven listen'd while you sung , And truths divine came mended from that tongue . From lips like those what precept fail'd to move ? Too soon they taught me ' twas no sin to love : Back through the paths of pleasing sense I ran , Nor ...
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... heaven seize it , all at once ' tis fired : Not touch'd , but rapt ; not waken'd , but inspired ! Oh come ! oh teach me nature to subdue , Renounce my love , my life , myself and you . Fill my fond heart with God alone , for he Alone ...
... heaven seize it , all at once ' tis fired : Not touch'd , but rapt ; not waken'd , but inspired ! Oh come ! oh teach me nature to subdue , Renounce my love , my life , myself and you . Fill my fond heart with God alone , for he Alone ...
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