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... born , my fon , fhe cries , With bafe impediments , to rife , And fome are born with none . But virtue can itself advance To what the fav'rite fools of chance By Fortune feem'd design'd ; Virtue can gain the odds of fate , And from ...
... born , my fon , fhe cries , With bafe impediments , to rife , And fome are born with none . But virtue can itself advance To what the fav'rite fools of chance By Fortune feem'd design'd ; Virtue can gain the odds of fate , And from ...
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... born lights no prejudice confounds . He , kindling from within , requires no flame : He glories in a baftard's glowing name . Born to himself , by no poffeffion led , In Freedom fofter'd , and by Fortune fed ; Nor guides , nor rules ...
... born lights no prejudice confounds . He , kindling from within , requires no flame : He glories in a baftard's glowing name . Born to himself , by no poffeffion led , In Freedom fofter'd , and by Fortune fed ; Nor guides , nor rules ...
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... born your dull , domestic heir ; Load of your life , and motive of your care ; Perhaps been poorly rich , and meanly great ; The flave of pomp , a cypher in the state ; Lordly neglectful of a worth unknown , And flumbering in a feat ...
... born your dull , domestic heir ; Load of your life , and motive of your care ; Perhaps been poorly rich , and meanly great ; The flave of pomp , a cypher in the state ; Lordly neglectful of a worth unknown , And flumbering in a feat ...
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... gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom❜d before ; New - born , I may a nobler mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely Supremely lovely , and ferenely great ! Majestic mother of 22 THE BEAUTIES ...
... gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom❜d before ; New - born , I may a nobler mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely Supremely lovely , and ferenely great ! Majestic mother of 22 THE BEAUTIES ...
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... born light . • In vain may Death and Time fubdue , While Nature mints her race anew , And holds fome vital spark apart , Like virtue , hid in ev'ry heart ; ' Tis hence reviving warmth is feen ,. To cloathe a naked world in green . No ...
... born light . • In vain may Death and Time fubdue , While Nature mints her race anew , And holds fome vital spark apart , Like virtue , hid in ev'ry heart ; ' Tis hence reviving warmth is feen ,. To cloathe a naked world in green . No ...
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Page 98 - ... immortal ! infeft infinite ! A worm ! a god ! — I tremble at myfelf, And in myfelf am loft ! at home a ftranger, Thought wanders up and down, furpriz'd, aghaft, And wond'ring at her own: How reafon reels ? O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly diftrefs'd ! what joy, what dread...