The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... never obtained ; a retirement from business in the declension of life , to enjoy age in peace and tranquillity : this last action speaks you truly great ; for that person , who , by a voluntary retreat , could industriously renounce all ...
... never obtained ; a retirement from business in the declension of life , to enjoy age in peace and tranquillity : this last action speaks you truly great ; for that person , who , by a voluntary retreat , could industriously renounce all ...
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... never could have thought , I swear , To find so great a slanderer there ! Beaux vow I'm fair - who never lye . " False thing ! thy malice I defy ! More brittle far than brittle thou , Would every grace of woman grow , If charms so great ...
... never could have thought , I swear , To find so great a slanderer there ! Beaux vow I'm fair - who never lye . " False thing ! thy malice I defy ! More brittle far than brittle thou , Would every grace of woman grow , If charms so great ...
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... never sounds alarms , Nor martial din is heard , nor clash of arms ; Hail , ye soft seats ! ye limpid springs and ... never flourish but in human woe , If never Earth the wreath triumphal bears , Till drench'd in heroes ' blood , or ...
... never sounds alarms , Nor martial din is heard , nor clash of arms ; Hail , ye soft seats ! ye limpid springs and ... never flourish but in human woe , If never Earth the wreath triumphal bears , Till drench'd in heroes ' blood , or ...
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... Never , ah ! never to return . ODE LXIV . TO APOLLO . ONCE more , not uninspir'd , the string I waken , and spontaneous sing : No Pythic laurel - wreath I claim , That lifts Ambition into fame : My voice unbidden tunes the lay : Some ...
... Never , ah ! never to return . ODE LXIV . TO APOLLO . ONCE more , not uninspir'd , the string I waken , and spontaneous sing : No Pythic laurel - wreath I claim , That lifts Ambition into fame : My voice unbidden tunes the lay : Some ...
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... never ascertained : we are informed , that they were of " gentle blood ; " that his father was of a family of which the earl of Downe was the head ; and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , esquire , of York , who had ...
... never ascertained : we are informed , that they were of " gentle blood ; " that his father was of a family of which the earl of Downe was the head ; and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , esquire , of York , who had ...
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