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... kind , By nature hating , yet by vows confin'd , Untaught the matrimonial bounds to flight , And coldly conscious of a husband's right , You had faint - drawn me with a form alone , A lawful lump of life , by force your own ! Then ...
... kind , By nature hating , yet by vows confin'd , Untaught the matrimonial bounds to flight , And coldly conscious of a husband's right , You had faint - drawn me with a form alone , A lawful lump of life , by force your own ! Then ...
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... kind quarter thou invad'st me not , While sharp and numberless my sorrows fall Yet thou repeat'ft , and multiply'ft ' em all ! Is chance a guilt , that my difaftrous heart , For mischief never meant , must ever fmart ? Can felf ...
... kind quarter thou invad'st me not , While sharp and numberless my sorrows fall Yet thou repeat'ft , and multiply'ft ' em all ! Is chance a guilt , that my difaftrous heart , For mischief never meant , must ever fmart ? Can felf ...
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... kind ! From hence proceed averfion , ftrife , And all that fours the wedded life . Beauty can only point the dart ; ' Tis neatness guides it to the heart : Let neatness , then , and beauty , ftrive To keep a wav'ring flame alive ...
... kind ! From hence proceed averfion , ftrife , And all that fours the wedded life . Beauty can only point the dart ; ' Tis neatness guides it to the heart : Let neatness , then , and beauty , ftrive To keep a wav'ring flame alive ...
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... more suppress'd , New melts the froft in ev'ry breast , ' The cheek with fecret flushing dyes , And looks kind things from chafteft eyes ; The The fun with healthier visage glows , Afide his clouded 40 THE BEAUTIES OF.
... more suppress'd , New melts the froft in ev'ry breast , ' The cheek with fecret flushing dyes , And looks kind things from chafteft eyes ; The The fun with healthier visage glows , Afide his clouded 40 THE BEAUTIES OF.
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... kind . F Whether the try fome favour'd piece , L. By rules devis'd in antient Greece ; Or whether , modern in her flight , She tells what Paris thinks polité : For , much her talents to advance , She ftudy'd Greece , and travell'd ...
... kind . F Whether the try fome favour'd piece , L. By rules devis'd in antient Greece ; Or whether , modern in her flight , She tells what Paris thinks polité : For , much her talents to advance , She ftudy'd Greece , and travell'd ...
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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...