Juvenile poemsJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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... pride , too good for pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boast , To all the world illustriously are lost ! O let my mufe her flender reed inspire , Till in your native fhades you tune ...
... pride , too good for pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boast , To all the world illustriously are lost ! O let my mufe her flender reed inspire , Till in your native fhades you tune ...
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... pride , furvey'ft our lofty woods ; Where towering oaks their growing honours rear , And future navies on thy fhores appear . Not Neptune's felf from all his ftreams receives A wealthier tribute , than to thine he gives . No feas fo ...
... pride , furvey'ft our lofty woods ; Where towering oaks their growing honours rear , And future navies on thy fhores appear . Not Neptune's felf from all his ftreams receives A wealthier tribute , than to thine he gives . No feas fo ...
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... Pride , pale Terror , gloomy Care , And mad Ambition fhall attend her there : There purple Vengeance bath'd in gore retires , Her weapons blunted , and extinct her fires : There hateful Envy her own fnakes fhall feel , And Perfecution ...
... Pride , pale Terror , gloomy Care , And mad Ambition fhall attend her there : There purple Vengeance bath'd in gore retires , Her weapons blunted , and extinct her fires : There hateful Envy her own fnakes fhall feel , And Perfecution ...
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... Pride , ver . 208 . II . Imperfect learning , ver . 215 . III . Judging by parts , and not by the whole , ver . 233 to 288. Cri- tics in wit , language , verfification , only , 288 , 305 339 , & c . IV . Being too hard to please , or ...
... Pride , ver . 208 . II . Imperfect learning , ver . 215 . III . Judging by parts , and not by the whole , ver . 233 to 288. Cri- tics in wit , language , verfification , only , 288 , 305 339 , & c . IV . Being too hard to please , or ...
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... PRIDE , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd , She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies , thus in fouls , we find What wants in blood and fpirits fwell'd with wind : Pride ...
... PRIDE , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd , She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies , thus in fouls , we find What wants in blood and fpirits fwell'd with wind : Pride ...
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