The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... peace was without friendship . He afterwards published a Miscellany of Poems , which is inserted , with correc tions , in the late compilation . He never rose to a very high dignity in the church . He was some time rector of Sturston in ...
... peace was without friendship . He afterwards published a Miscellany of Poems , which is inserted , with correc tions , in the late compilation . He never rose to a very high dignity in the church . He was some time rector of Sturston in ...
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... peace and tranquillity : this last action speaks you truly great ; for that person , who , by a voluntary retreat , could industriously renounce all the grandeur of the world , must evidently have soul above it . a Tully in his Tusculum ...
... peace and tranquillity : this last action speaks you truly great ; for that person , who , by a voluntary retreat , could industriously renounce all the grandeur of the world , must evidently have soul above it . a Tully in his Tusculum ...
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... peaceful fields , And reap what bounteous Nature yields , Unmov'd , the merchant's wealth behold , Nor hazard ... peace within ; [ mien Such joys as none but sons of Virtue know , Shine in thy - face , and in thy bosom glow . So ...
... peaceful fields , And reap what bounteous Nature yields , Unmov'd , the merchant's wealth behold , Nor hazard ... peace within ; [ mien Such joys as none but sons of Virtue know , Shine in thy - face , and in thy bosom glow . So ...
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... PEACE AND RETIREMENT . WRITTEN IN 1710 . Secessus mei non desidiæ nomen , sed tranquillita- tis accipiant . Plin . HAPPY , thou Flandria , on whose fertile plains , In wanton pride luxurious Plenty reigns ; Happy ! had Heaven bestow'd ...
... PEACE AND RETIREMENT . WRITTEN IN 1710 . Secessus mei non desidiæ nomen , sed tranquillita- tis accipiant . Plin . HAPPY , thou Flandria , on whose fertile plains , In wanton pride luxurious Plenty reigns ; Happy ! had Heaven bestow'd ...
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... peaceful days , And steal myself from life by slow decays ; Draw health from food the temperate garden yields , From ... Peace , from the wild floods of war Come dove - like , and thy blooming olive bear ; Tell me , ye victors , what ...
... peaceful days , And steal myself from life by slow decays ; Draw health from food the temperate garden yields , From ... Peace , from the wild floods of war Come dove - like , and thy blooming olive bear ; Tell me , ye victors , what ...
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