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... pain ! Thou actor of our paffions o'er again ! Why dost thou aggravate the wretches woe ? Why add continuous smart to ev'ry blow ? Few are my joys ; alas ! how foon forgot ! On that kind quarter thou invad'st me not , While sharp and ...
... pain ! Thou actor of our paffions o'er again ! Why dost thou aggravate the wretches woe ? Why add continuous smart to ev'ry blow ? Few are my joys ; alas ! how foon forgot ! On that kind quarter thou invad'st me not , While sharp and ...
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... pain . Where shall my hope find reft ? —No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd , Call'd forth my virtues , or from vice restrain'd . Is it not thine to fnatch some pow ...
... pain . Where shall my hope find reft ? —No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd , Call'd forth my virtues , or from vice restrain'd . Is it not thine to fnatch some pow ...
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... painful journey all must go , Whofe doubtful period none can know , Whofe due direction who can find , Where Reason's mute , and Sense is blind ? Ah , what unequal leaders these , Thro ' fuch a wide , perplexing maze ! Then mark the ...
... painful journey all must go , Whofe doubtful period none can know , Whofe due direction who can find , Where Reason's mute , and Sense is blind ? Ah , what unequal leaders these , Thro ' fuch a wide , perplexing maze ! Then mark the ...
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... pain can please . At length , the toilfome journey o'er , And near the bright , celestial shore , A gulph , black , fearful , and profound , Appears , of either world the bound , Thro ' darkness leading up to light ; Senfe backward ...
... pain can please . At length , the toilfome journey o'er , And near the bright , celestial shore , A gulph , black , fearful , and profound , Appears , of either world the bound , Thro ' darkness leading up to light ; Senfe backward ...
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... pain , While Nature , as from bonds set free , Springs out , and gives a loose to glee . And now , for momentary rest , The nymph her travell'd step reprefs'd , Juft turn'd to view the stage attain'd , And glory'd in the height fhe gain ...
... pain , While Nature , as from bonds set free , Springs out , and gives a loose to glee . And now , for momentary rest , The nymph her travell'd step reprefs'd , Juft turn'd to view the stage attain'd , And glory'd in the height fhe gain ...
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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...