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... plain , 12 A new creation rescued from his reign . Thus , while around the wave - subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil , Industrious habits in each bosom reign , And industry begets a love of gain . Hence all the good from ...
... plain , 12 A new creation rescued from his reign . Thus , while around the wave - subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil , Industrious habits in each bosom reign , And industry begets a love of gain . Hence all the good from ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. THE DESERTED VILLAGE . SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain , Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain , Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid , And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd ...
Oliver Goldsmith. THE DESERTED VILLAGE . SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain , Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain , Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid , And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd ...
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... plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , chok'd with sedges , works its weedy way ; Along thy glades , a solitary guest , ' The hollow - sounding bittern guards its nest ; 1 The hollow ] There is no sound so dismally ...
... plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , chok'd with sedges , works its weedy way ; Along thy glades , a solitary guest , ' The hollow - sounding bittern guards its nest ; 1 The hollow ] There is no sound so dismally ...
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... sad historian of the pensive plain . " 6 And filled ] The nightingale's pausing song would be the proper epithet for this bird's music . ' . - Ar . Nat . i . p . 329 . Near yonder copse , where once the garden smil'd , 38 THE POEMS.
... sad historian of the pensive plain . " 6 And filled ] The nightingale's pausing song would be the proper epithet for this bird's music . ' . - Ar . Nat . i . p . 329 . Near yonder copse , where once the garden smil'd , 38 THE POEMS.
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... plain , Secure to please while youth confirms her reign , Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies , Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; 13 Takes ] Abstulerat miseris tecta superbus ager . ' Martial , Ep . 1 , 2 , 3 ...
... plain , Secure to please while youth confirms her reign , Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies , Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; 13 Takes ] Abstulerat miseris tecta superbus ager . ' Martial , Ep . 1 , 2 , 3 ...
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