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... Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill , Yet still he sighs , for hoards are
wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise , [ plies : Pleas ' d with
each good that Heaven to man supYet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To
see the ...
... Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill , Yet still he sighs , for hoards are
wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise , [ plies : Pleas ' d with
each good that Heaven to man supYet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To
see the ...
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Could nature ' s bounty satisfy the breast , The sons of Italy were surely blest . 4
theatric pride ) v . Lycophronis , C ' ass . v . 600 . θεατρομόρφωι προς κλίτει
γεωλόφων . Virg . ¯n . v . 288 . quem collibus undique curvis Cingebant silv¿ ...
Could nature ' s bounty satisfy the breast , The sons of Italy were surely blest . 4
theatric pride ) v . Lycophronis , C ' ass . v . 600 . θεατρομόρφωι προς κλίτει
γεωλόφων . Virg . ¯n . v . 288 . quem collibus undique curvis Cingebant silv¿ ...
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... the soldier and his sword ; No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array , But winter
lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain ' s breast , But
meteors glare , and stormy glooms invest . Yet still , even here , content can ...
... the soldier and his sword ; No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array , But winter
lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain ' s breast , But
meteors glare , and stormy glooms invest . Yet still , even here , content can ...
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Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms , And dear that hill which lifts him to
the storms ; And as a child , when scaring sounds molest , Clings close and
closer to the mother ' s breast , So the loud torrent , and the whirlwind ' s roar , But
...
Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms , And dear that hill which lifts him to
the storms ; And as a child , when scaring sounds molest , Clings close and
closer to the mother ' s breast , So the loud torrent , and the whirlwind ' s roar , But
...
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10 For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when
redrest . Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies , That first excites
desire , and then supplies ; Unknown to them , when sensual pleasures cloy , To
...
10 For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when
redrest . Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies , That first excites
desire , and then supplies ; Unknown to them , when sensual pleasures cloy , To
...
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| Title | Poetical Works |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 mär. 2009 |
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