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... shall use for the favour of the publick , is , that I have as great a respect for it , as moft authors have for themselves ; and that I have facrificed much of my own felf - love for its fake , in preventing not only many mean things ...
... shall use for the favour of the publick , is , that I have as great a respect for it , as moft authors have for themselves ; and that I have facrificed much of my own felf - love for its fake , in preventing not only many mean things ...
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... shall make it the former , may these Poems ( as long as they laft ) remain as a teftimo- ny , that their Author never made his talents fub- fervient to the mean and unworthy ends of Party or felf - interest ; the gratification of ...
... shall make it the former , may these Poems ( as long as they laft ) remain as a teftimo- ny , that their Author never made his talents fub- fervient to the mean and unworthy ends of Party or felf - interest ; the gratification of ...
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... shore , The Nymph be fung , when she can flow no more . Nor shall thy fong , old Thames ! forbear to shine , At once the fubject and the song divine . a 4 80 85 90 Peace , Peace , fung by thee , fhall please ev'n Britons ( xxiii )
... shore , The Nymph be fung , when she can flow no more . Nor shall thy fong , old Thames ! forbear to shine , At once the fubject and the song divine . a 4 80 85 90 Peace , Peace , fung by thee , fhall please ev'n Britons ( xxiii )
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... shall whelm in dust The arch , the marble , and the mimic buft : Nor ' till the volumes of th ' expanded sky Blaze in one flame , fhalt thou and Homer die : Then fink together , in the world's last fires , What heav'n created , and what ...
... shall whelm in dust The arch , the marble , and the mimic buft : Nor ' till the volumes of th ' expanded sky Blaze in one flame , fhalt thou and Homer die : Then fink together , in the world's last fires , What heav'n created , and what ...
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... shall praife , who beft shall recommend ? The Chariot now the painful steep afcends ; The Peans ceafe ; thy glorious labour ends . Here fix'd , the bright eternal Temple ftands , Its profpect an unbounded view commands : 25 30 Say ...
... shall praife , who beft shall recommend ? The Chariot now the painful steep afcends ; The Peans ceafe ; thy glorious labour ends . Here fix'd , the bright eternal Temple ftands , Its profpect an unbounded view commands : 25 30 Say ...
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