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... I ! They view me like the last of things ; They make , and then they dread my ftings . Fools ! if you lefs provok'd your fears , No more my spectre - form appears . B 2 Death's 4 Death's but a path that must be trod , ENGLISH POES Y. 3.
... I ! They view me like the last of things ; They make , and then they dread my ftings . Fools ! if you lefs provok'd your fears , No more my spectre - form appears . B 2 Death's 4 Death's but a path that must be trod , ENGLISH POES Y. 3.
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Oliver Goldsmith. 4 Death's but a path that must be trod , If man wou'd ever pass to God : A port of calms , a state of ease From the rough rage of fwelling feas . Why , then , thy flowing fable ftoles , Deep pending cyprefs , mourning ...
Oliver Goldsmith. 4 Death's but a path that must be trod , If man wou'd ever pass to God : A port of calms , a state of ease From the rough rage of fwelling feas . Why , then , thy flowing fable ftoles , Deep pending cyprefs , mourning ...
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... must ever fmart ? Can felf - defence be fin ? -Ah , plead no more ! What tho ' no purpos'd malice stain'd thee o'er ? Had Heav'n befriended thy unhappy fide , Thou had❜ft not been provok'd - or Thou had'ft dy'd , Far be the guilt of ...
... must ever fmart ? Can felf - defence be fin ? -Ah , plead no more ! What tho ' no purpos'd malice stain'd thee o'er ? Had Heav'n befriended thy unhappy fide , Thou had❜ft not been provok'd - or Thou had'ft dy'd , Far be the guilt of ...
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... must the wrapping bed - gown hide Your fnowy bofom's fwelling pride ? How ill that drefs adorns your head , Diftain'd , and rumpled , from the bed ! Those clouds , that fhade your blooming face , A little water might displace , As ...
... must the wrapping bed - gown hide Your fnowy bofom's fwelling pride ? How ill that drefs adorns your head , Diftain'd , and rumpled , from the bed ! Those clouds , that fhade your blooming face , A little water might displace , As ...
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... must be had- -and lamb is nigh ; His maw invokes the fraudful lye . Is this ( diffembling rage ) he cry'd , The gentle virtue of a bride ? That , leagu'd with man's deftroying race , She fets her husband for the chace ? By treach'ry ...
... must be had- -and lamb is nigh ; His maw invokes the fraudful lye . Is this ( diffembling rage ) he cry'd , The gentle virtue of a bride ? That , leagu'd with man's deftroying race , She fets her husband for the chace ? By treach'ry ...
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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...