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... delighted Heaven ? Into fuch beauty spread , and blown so fair ; Tho ' Poverty's cold wind , and crushing rain , Beat keen , and heavy , on thy tender years ? O let me , now , into a richer foil Tranfplant thee fafe ; where vernal funs ...
... delighted Heaven ? Into fuch beauty spread , and blown so fair ; Tho ' Poverty's cold wind , and crushing rain , Beat keen , and heavy , on thy tender years ? O let me , now , into a richer foil Tranfplant thee fafe ; where vernal funs ...
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... , with anger in his look , The late - repenting fool bespoke . Blind to the good that courts thee grown ; Whence has the fun of favour shone ? C 2 Efteem Delighted with thy tuneful art . Efteem was growing in ENGLISH POES Y 27.
... , with anger in his look , The late - repenting fool bespoke . Blind to the good that courts thee grown ; Whence has the fun of favour shone ? C 2 Efteem Delighted with thy tuneful art . Efteem was growing in ENGLISH POES Y 27.
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Oliver Goldsmith. Delighted with thy tuneful art . Efteem was growing in my heart ; But idly thou reject'ft the charm That gave it birth , and kept it warm . Unthinking fools , alone defpife The arts , that taught them first to rise ...
Oliver Goldsmith. Delighted with thy tuneful art . Efteem was growing in my heart ; But idly thou reject'ft the charm That gave it birth , and kept it warm . Unthinking fools , alone defpife The arts , that taught them first to rise ...
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... delight , Like her , to drefs the world in white . But , when her rifing form was feen To reach the crifis of fifteen , Her parents up the mountain's head , With anxious step their darling led ; By turns they fuatch'd her to their ...
... delight , Like her , to drefs the world in white . But , when her rifing form was feen To reach the crifis of fifteen , Her parents up the mountain's head , With anxious step their darling led ; By turns they fuatch'd her to their ...
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... delight , And caught fresh virtue at the fight ; - For not of earth's unequal frame They deem'd the heav'n - compounded Dame , If matter , fure the moft refin'd , High wrought , and temper'd into mind , Some darling daughter of the day ...
... delight , And caught fresh virtue at the fight ; - For not of earth's unequal frame They deem'd the heav'n - compounded Dame , If matter , fure the moft refin'd , High wrought , and temper'd into mind , Some darling daughter of the day ...
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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...