The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, JohnsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... plain ? -- Yet what are these to man , who bears the sway ; For all was made for him - to serve and to obey . Thus in high Heaven charity is great , Faith , hope , devotion hold a lower place ; On her the cherubs and the seraphs wait ...
... plain ? -- Yet what are these to man , who bears the sway ; For all was made for him - to serve and to obey . Thus in high Heaven charity is great , Faith , hope , devotion hold a lower place ; On her the cherubs and the seraphs wait ...
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... plain Thyr al villa lifts its modest head , Wher ir convenience reigns in fashion's stead ; Where sober plenty does its bliss impart , And glads thine hospitable , honest heart . Mirth without vice , and rapture without noise , And all ...
... plain Thyr al villa lifts its modest head , Wher ir convenience reigns in fashion's stead ; Where sober plenty does its bliss impart , And glads thine hospitable , honest heart . Mirth without vice , and rapture without noise , And all ...
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... plains , No flocks wide past'ring bleat , nor oxen low ; No fountains musically murm'ring flow ; Th'ungenial waste no ... plain , Guides me with gentle gale , and lights on Earth again , MATERIES GAUDET VI INERTI¯ . V , ERVECUM in patria ...
... plains , No flocks wide past'ring bleat , nor oxen low ; No fountains musically murm'ring flow ; Th'ungenial waste no ... plain , Guides me with gentle gale , and lights on Earth again , MATERIES GAUDET VI INERTI¯ . V , ERVECUM in patria ...
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... plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits or critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse , nor ass . Those ... plains . Thus in the soul , while memory prevails , The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm ...
... plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits or critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse , nor ass . Those ... plains . Thus in the soul , while memory prevails , The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm ...
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... plain . As some strong charm , which magic sounds compose , Suspends a downward torrent as it flows ; Checks in the precipice its headlong course , And calls it trembling upwards to its source : Such seem'd the robe , which , to the ...
... plain . As some strong charm , which magic sounds compose , Suspends a downward torrent as it flows ; Checks in the precipice its headlong course , And calls it trembling upwards to its source : Such seem'd the robe , which , to the ...
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